Commonwealth v. Valentin

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The defendant was convicted of murder in the first degree in two shooting deaths on theories of premeditation and extreme atrocity or cruelty. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court affirmed, rejecting challenges to introduction in evidence of weapons and related items that he lawfully owned and that were not alleged to have been used in the shooting; the denial of defendant’s request that the jury be instructed on voluntary manslaughter based on a theory of reasonable provocation; to the instruction that was given that the jury must "find" the defendant was intoxicated; and to portions of the prosecutor's closing argument in several respects. View "Commonwealth v. Valentin" on Justia Law