Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Whelton
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided July 17, 1998PublishedCited by 85 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtAbrams, J.
Convicted of one count of assault and battery on his longtime companion, Janet Whelton,1 the defendant appeals. The defendant argues that the hearsay statements of the victim and her daughter were not admissible as spontaneous utter-*25anees, that admitting these statements without a showing that the declarants were unavailable violated his confrontation rights, and that, because the Commonwealth’s case consisted solely of hearsay statements, the evidence against him was insufficient as a matter of law. We transferred the case to this court on our own initiative. We affirm.
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2Cases cited28 opinions
- California v. GreenSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
- Commonwealth v. LatimoreMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1979
- White v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1992
- Commonwealth v. AmiraultMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1997
- Commonwealth v. DurlingMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1990
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3Cited by85 opinions
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- Commonwealth v. MartinMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2006
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