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Man got fair trial for Roxbury revenge murder, gets to spend rest of life in prison, court rules

The Supreme Judicial Court today upheld Joseph Gomes's conviction for the 2007 shooting death of Fausto Sanchez on Maywood Street in Roxbury, concluding that Gomes got a fair trial and that a reasonable person could have found him guilty of murder in the first degree.

Gomes, of Hyde Park, had been charged with killing Sanchez in an attempt to target another man who'd allegedly shot at one of Gomes' relatives earlier in the day on Langdon Street in Roxbury.

According to the court ruling, Gomes and his nephew, Emmanuel Dasilva, drove over to Maywood Street, where the shooter lived, spotted his car and a group of men standing near it and opened fire - fatally hitting Sanchez wounding several other men. Sanchez had nothing to do with the morning's gunfire and the man Gomes was trying to hit was not one of the men who wound up shot or fleeing.

Dasilva was also found guilty of first-degree murder. The state's highest court upheld Dasilva's conviction last year.

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