Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Chatman
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided March 16, 2016No. SJC 08921PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtCordy, J.
On February 10, 2000, police responded to a telephone call made by the defendant, Demond Chatman, reporting that his mother, the victim, had been shot. The defendant directed officers to the home of the victim’s aunt, where the defendant was living. The police found the victim’s body in the aunt’s bedroom.
On January 24,2002, a jury returned a guilty verdict against the defendant on the charge of murder in the first degree. The defendant appealed, and, in May, 2008, during the pendency of that appeal, the defendant filed a motion for a new trial on the ground that he had not been competent to…
2Cases cited23 opinions
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- Commonwealth v. GraceMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1986
- L.L., a juvenile v. CommonwealthMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2014
- United States v. Michael A. S. MakrisCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1976
- Ronald Watson Lafferty v. Gerald Cook, Warden of the Utah State PrisonCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1992
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3Cited by14 opinions
- Commonwealth v. MartinezMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2017
- Commonwealth v. LysMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2018
- Commonwealth v. MillerMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2016
- Commonwealth v. GibsonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2016
- Chatman v. DemouraDistrict Court, D. Massachusetts · 2018
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