Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Wills
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided December 10, 1986PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtLiacos, J.
The defendant, Jeffrey Wills, was convicted by a jury of murder in the first degree and of armed burglary in connection with the fatal stabbing of Constance Jacobsen on September 11, 1982. He was sentenced to the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Walpole (now Cedar Junction) for the term of his natural life on the murder conviction, and for a concurrent term of sixty to seventy years on the conviction of armed burglary. The defendant appeals to this court and seeks a new trial pursuant to G. L. c. 278, § 33E(1984 ed.).
The defendant claims that certain evidence should have been…
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