Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 3/16/2009

Commonwealth v. Townsend

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453 Mass. 413
902 N.E.2d 388
2009 Mass. LEXIS 42

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jury could find that defendant had time for reflection based on evidence of fifty-eight stab wounds committed in two different rooms
reasonable to enter home to render aid where occupant might have been incapacitated due to drug intoxication
“the ‘ultimate touchstone’ of both the Fourth Amendment and art. 14 is reasonableness”
victim's fifty-eight stab wounds, including several defensive wounds, sufficient for deliberate premeditation
“objectively reasonable grounds for the police to believe that the victim was inside the defendant’s apartment and was in trouble, whether injured by reason of the defendant’s abuse or by reason of using cocaine”
intent for murder in first degree committed with extreme atrocity or cruelty

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