Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Gordon
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided June 10, 1996PublishedCited by 66 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtO’Connor, J.
A jury found the defendants Ventry Gordon and Sean Lee guilty of murder in the first degree of Jesse Mc-Kie and Rigoberto Carrion and guilty of armed robbery of McKie. They found the murders committed by Gordon to have been premeditated and those committed by Lee to have been felony-murders. Ricardo Parks, who was also charged with murdering McKie and Carrion and with armed robbery of McKie, was acquitted of those charges. The jury found the defendant Ronald Settles guilty of being an accessory after the fact of assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon on McKie. Settles was…
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