Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Awad
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided June 16, 1999No. 97-P-2042PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtGreenberg, J.
The only real issue at the defendant’s trial was identification: was he the man who stabbed the female victim in a restaurant parking lot on the evening of November 12, 1994, and ran off with her purse? The evidence linking the defendant to the crime was the victim’s identification of the defendant, in several photo arrays, as the man who robbed her, and her in-court identification of the defendant at a probable cause hearing some seven weeks after the incident. In April of 1996, a judge denied the defendant’s motion to suppress the identification testimony. At trial following the motion…
2Cases cited31 opinions
- Commonwealth v. KozecMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1987
- Commonwealth v. BradshawMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1982
- Commonwealth v. BotelhoMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1976
- Commonwealth v. BorodineMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1976
- Commonwealth v. StoreyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1979
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3Cited by8 opinions
- Commonwealth v. GentileMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2002
- Commonwealth v. TrinhMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2011
- Commonwealth v. RutherfordMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2017
- Commonwealth v. FernandesMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2002
- Commonwealth v. DaleyMassachusetts Appeals Court · 2002
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