State v. Nightingale
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The Supreme Judicial Court affirmed in all respects a judgment of conviction of two counts of murder and other weapons-related counts entered by the trial court following a jury trial on the murder charges and a bench trial on the other charges, holding that there was no error or abuse of discretion.
Specifically, the Supreme Judicial Court held that the trial court (1) did not err by denying Defendant's request to present evidence to the jury that a State investigator had monitored telephone calls between Defendant and his attorney while Defendant was in pretrial detention; (2) did not err by giving a jury instruction on accomplice liability; (3) did not err by not granting a mistrial based on certain comments made by the prosecutor during the State's closing arguments; and (4) did not err in sentencing Defendant to life sentences on the murder charges.
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