Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Pope
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided April 11, 1986PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtAbrams, J.
On November 15, 1981, the bodies of James F. Black and Penny A. Mathewson were found in Black’s condominium at Pickering Wharf in Salem. Black had been shot twice in the head; Mathewson had been shot once in the head in an apparent murder-suicide. The defendant, Anthony R. Pope, was tried and convicted under G. L. c. 274, § 2, 1 as an accessory before the fact to the murder in the first degree of Black and for unlawfully carrying a firearm. 2 He was sentenced to a term of life imprisonment at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Cedar Junction. The defendant appeals, arguing that the…
2Cases cited19 opinions
- Shepard v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1933
- People v. MaerlingNew York Court of Appeals · 1978
- United States v. Gilberto Pablo AlvarezCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1978
- Commonwealth v. CundriffMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1980
- Commonwealth v. RichardsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1973
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3Cited by14 opinions
- Commonwealth v. HelfantMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1986
- Commonwealth v. SemedoMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1996
- Commonwealth v. FrancisMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2000
- Commonwealth v. CharlesMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1999
- Commonwealth v. BianchiMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2001
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