Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Nassar
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided May 6, 1968PublishedCited by 66 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtCutter, J.
In Commonwealth v. Nassar, 351 Mass. 37, 44-45 (the first Nassar case 1 ), we reversed Nassar’s death sentence. He was again found guilty of murder in the first degree after a new trial, August 14-23, 1967. The new jury, however, recommended that the death sentence be not imposed. Nassar was sentenced to life imprisonment. The case is before us under G. L. c. 278, § § 33A-33G, as amended. The evidence was essentially that recited in the first Nassar case, 351 Mass. 37, 39-40, with some omissions and with the addition of the testimony of a new witness mentioned below.
On September 29,1964, Mrs.…
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