Commonwealth v. Welch
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The Supreme Judicial Court affirmed Defendant's conviction of murder in the first degree on theories of both deliberate premeditation and extreme atrocity or cruelty, holding that there was no reversible error either in any issue raised by Defendant or in this Court's review under Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 33E.
Specifically, the Supreme Judicial Court held (1) the trial court did not err in denying Defendant's motion to suppress handwritten note and oral statements he made to officers while he was hospitalized; (2) Defendant was not entitled to reversal of his convictions on the grounds of error in the trial judge's evidentiary rulings; (3) the trial judge did not err in denying Defendant's motion for a new trial; and (4) there was no basis for reducing Defendant's sentence on the murder conviction or ordering a new trial.
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