Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Souza
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided April 7, 1986PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtLynch, J.
The defendant, an indigent, was convicted of larceny in the Boston Municipal Court Department, jury-of-six session, and was sentenced to a term of six months’ imprisonment. On appeal he argues that (1) the judge erred in refusing to grant the defendant’s motion for a required finding of not guilty; (2) the conviction should be reversed because there was error in the denial of a continuance of the trial pending appeal of decisions that the defendant not be provided with the costs of a polygraph examination and a transcript of the prior bench trial. We find no basis for either contention and…
2Cases cited16 opinions
- Commonwealth v. LatimoreMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1979
- Ungar v. SarafiteSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
- Chandler v. Warden FretagSupreme Court of the United States · 1954
- Commonwealth v. CasaleMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1980
- Commonwealth v. VitelloMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1978
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3Cited by26 opinions
- Commonwealth v. MilesMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1995
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- Commonwealth v. SeniorMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2001
- Gos v. BrownsteinMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1988
- Commonwealth v. RayMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2014
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