Commonwealth v. Lent

We consider whether the Commonwealth may properly indict and try the defendant Lent for the 1990 murder of a young boy whom Lent kidnapped in Pittsfield, took *765to western New York State, and then killed. We conclude that the Commonwealth has authority to indict and try Lent for murder, and, therefore, a Superior Court judge properly denied Lent’s motion to dismiss the murder indictment.

Pursuant to Mass. R. Crim. P. 34, 378 Mass. 905 (1979), the Superior Court judge reported the propriety of his order denying the motion to dismiss the indictment for murder.1 We allowed Lent’s application for…