1 Represented by new counsel on appeal, the defendant argues that his trial counsel provided him with ineffective assistance because counsel failed to pursue, or to seek a jury instruction on, the issue of duress. Thompson, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.Ī jury in the Superior Court convicted the defendant of armed robbery while masked and felony-murder in the first degree as a joint venturer in the robbery. Obligato,Committee for Public Counsel Services, Boston, for the defendant. Present: ABRAMS, LYNCH, GREANEY, MARSHALL, & IRELAND, JJ.Ĭarlo A. Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts,Plymouth.ĬOMMONWEALTH v.
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