Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Walter
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided December 5, 1984PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtFine, J.
In March of 1981, Leroy Walter was convicted of unarmed robbery. We affirmed the conviction in Commonwealth v. Walter, 14 Mass. App. Ct. 1303 (1982). In October of 1982, Walter, pro se, filed a motion for a new trial. Counsel was appointed to represent him, and a hearing on the motion was held before the judge who had presided over the trial. The motion was denied in December of 1982 and Walter appeals from that ruling. We affirm.
Walter contends that his trial counsel, Mr. Andrew Campoli of the Massachusetts Defenders Committee, had a genuine conflict of interest because he also represented…
2Cases cited18 opinions
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- United States v. Pedro L. AlvarezCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1978
- Commonwealth v. ShelineMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1984
- Commonwealth v. HodgeMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1982
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3Cited by4 opinions
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