Commonwealth v. Brown
Annotate this CaseDefendant was convicted of murder in the first degree on theories of deliberate premeditation and extreme atrocity or cruelty. The Supreme Court affirmed the convictions and declined to exercise its powers under Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 278, 33E to reduce the degree of guilt or to order a new trial, holding that the trial court did not commit prejudicial error in (1) denying Defendant’s motion for a required finding of not guilty as to the theory of murder by extreme atrocity or cruelty; (2) denying Defendant’s motion to suppress; (3) admitting into evidence police accusations during the interrogations of Defendant; (4) admitting a statement of the codefendant under the joint venture exception to the hearsay rule; (5) admitting recorded jailhouse telephone calls; and (6) instructing the jury.
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