Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Carriere
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided October 28, 2014No. SJC 11339PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtDuffly, J.
On January 3, 1980, at approximately 8 p.m., the victim, who was the defendant’s wife, was found dead on the bathroom floor in her home in Bourne. She had died “quite some time” earlier of multiple stab wounds. When the victim’s body was discovered, the defendant and his fourteen year old daughter, who lived with the victim, were in Florida visiting one of the defendant’s older daughters. In June, 2005, Steven Stewart, the man who stabbed the victim, was convicted of murder in the first degree; this court reversed his conviction in 2009 based on errors in the admission of testimony by a key…
2Cases cited57 opinions
- Crawford v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 2004
- Commonwealth v. FlebotteMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1994
- Commonwealth v. WrightMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1992
- Commonwealth v. KozecMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1987
- Commonwealth v. AlphasMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1999
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3Cited by29 opinions
- Commonwealth v. OberleMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2017
- Commonwealth v. VargasMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2016
- Commonwealth v. WardsworthMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2019
- Commonwealth v. BoisMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2016
- Commonwealth v. RutherfordMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2017
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