Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. O'DELL
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided July 11, 1984PublishedCited by 202 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtO’Connor, J.
The defendant was indicted for the armed robbery of a convenience store in the city of Salem. The indictment was dismissed by a judge of the Superior Court. On appeal by the Commonwealth, the Appeals Court reversed. We allowed the defendant’s application for further appellate review. We affirm the order of the Superior Court.
The indictment was dismissed pursuant to a motion of the defendant which asserted that the evidence before the grand jury was insufficient to support an indictment and that the prosecutor improperly withheld exculpatory evidence from the grand jury. The judge ruled that…
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