Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Alcide
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided July 13, 2015No. SJC 10342PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtLenk, J.
Sharif Shaheed was shot and killed in the aftermath of an argument between two groups of friends outside a Lowell pub. The defendant, charged with Shaheed’s murder, posited at trial that a third party had been the shooter. A Superior Court jury returned a conviction of murder in the first degree on a theory of deliberate premeditation. The defendant filed a motion for a new trial, asserting, among other things, that his trial counsel provided constitutionally ineffective assistance. The motion was denied by the judge who had presided at trial. Before us is a consolidated appeal from the…
2Cases cited51 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Simmons v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Commonwealth v. SaferianMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1974
- Perry v. New HampshireSupreme Court of the United States · 2012
- Commonwealth v. GraceMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1986
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3Cited by22 opinions
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