Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Carita
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided June 4, 1969PublishedCited by 58 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtReardon, J.
The defendants, David C. Carita, Sabatino A. Fondanova, Francis B. Lynch and Paul J. Wise, appeal under G. L. c. 278, §§ 33A-33G, as amended, their convictions on indictments charging them with murder in the first degree and armed robbery. The jury having in each case recommended that the death sentence be not imposed on the murder indictments, the defendants were sentenced to life imprisonment. On the indictments for armed robbery, sentences for terms of years were imposed to be served concurrently with the several sentences on the convictions for murder. The cases are before us on a summary…
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