Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2/11/1993

Commonwealth v. Burke

Citations

607 N.E.2d 991
414 Mass. 252
1993 Mass. LEXIS 23

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holding that there was no substantial likelihood of miscarriage of justice even though judge did not give jury humane practice instruction
holding that a substantially similar premeditation instruction “also effectively required that the jury find that the defendant intended to kill the victim”
declining to reduce first degree murder verdict where other participant was convicted of murder in the second degree
upholding jury’s separate verdict on theory of deliberate premeditation where defendant alleged instructional error on extreme atrocity
employing more deferential ineffective assistance of counsel standard than that imposed by Sixth Amendment when reviewing first degree murder case
“we have declined to accept [inconsistent verdicts] as sufficient to warrant the exercise of our power to reduce the verdict of the jury”

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Judges: Liacos, Nolan, Lynch, Greaney

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