Criminal – Murder – Postconviction forensic testing | Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly

Where a defendant was convicted of first-degree murder, the defendant has presented no convincing basis for overturning that conviction, but his motion for postconviction forensic testing should have been allowed because the motion and accompanying documents contain sufficient information meet the modest threshold requirements of G.L.c. 278A, §3. “A jury convicted the defendant, Scott Steadman, ...