State v. Sweeney
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The Supreme Judicial Court affirmed Defendant's conviction of murder entered by the trial court after a jury-waived trial, holding that that the court did not err in admitting certain testimony given by the mother of the victim and that the sentence was without error.
Specifically, the Court held (1) the trial court erred in admitting the mother's hearsay testimony, but the error was harmless because it was highly probable that the error did not affect the factfinder's judgment; and (2) the court did not "double-count" the factor of domestic violence in reaching its sentence.
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