Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Allen
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided October 14, 1999PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtGreaney, J.
A jury in the Superior Court convicted the defendant of armed robbery while masked and felony-murder in the first degree as a joint venturer in the robbery.1 Represented by new counsel on appeal, the defendant argues that his trial counsel provided him with ineffective assistance because counsel failed to pursue, or to seek a jury instruction on, the issue of duress. The defendant also argues that the trial judge erred by failing to instruct the jury that, in order to find the defendant guilty of felony-murder, they had to find that the victim’s death was a natural and probable consequence of…
2Cases cited15 opinions
- Commonwealth v. WrightMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1992
- Commonwealth v. MatchettMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1982
- Commonwealth v. WaiteMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1996
- Commonwealth v. RobinsonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1981
- Commonwealth v. FickettMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1988
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3Cited by11 opinions
- Commonwealth v. ChaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2001
- Commonwealth v. CintronMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2001
- Commonwealth v. VasquezMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2012
- Commonwealth v. VintonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2000
- Commonwealth v. RiveraMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2013
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