Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 4/12/2017

Commonwealth v. Felix

Citations

476 Mass. 750
72 N.E.3d 1038

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discussing judge's duty to provide instruction on reasonable 20 provocation where precipitating event would have provoked heat of passion in ordinary person
\the time required to strangle the victim . . . supported a finding of deliberate premeditation inconsistent with sudden provocation\
\the time required to strangle the victim . . . supported a finding of deliberate premeditation inconsistent with sudden provocation\
no error in declining to give involuntary manslaughter instruction where defendant strangled victim for three to five minutes, fracturing her neck cartilage
involuntary manslaughter instruction not warranted where defendant placed 17 ligature around victim's neck and pulled with force for three to five minutes
no error where deliberate premeditation instruction excluded phrase \cool reflection\

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Judges: Gants, Botsford, Lenk, Hines, Gaziano

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