Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Leate
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided May 7, 1975PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtKaplan, J.
We are required to consider whether guilty pleas entered by the defendants Edward F. Leate and Christopher J. Pina some seven years ago should, on post-conviction attack, be upheld as voluntary, as the judge below held, or set aside as involuntary because not intelligently and understandingly made. There is an additional question, whether it was proper for the judge who accepted the guilty pleas to hear and pass on the later motions to set them aside.
Leate and Pina were indicted for the murder in the first degree on November 25, 1967, of one Joseph J. Sheerin and for other lesser crimes…
2Cases cited24 opinions
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3Cited by31 opinions
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