Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 4/12/2013

Commonwealth v. Alicea

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464 Mass. 837
985 N.E.2d 1197
2013 WL 1459256
2013 Mass. LEXIS 172

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extreme atrocity or cruelty found where victim was shot as he turned to flee and suffered from multiple gunshot wounds including fatal head wound
\claim of ineffective assistance of counsel for failure to call an expert witness is generally doomed where [t]he defendant's claim is not supported by any affidavits to disclose the content of the omitted expert testimony\ [quotation omitted]
\claim of ineffective assistance of counsel for failure to call an expert witness is generally doomed where '[t]he defendant's claim is not supported by any affidavits' to disclose the content of the omitted expert testimony\ [citation omitted]

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