Legal Opinion
Subilosky v. Commonwealth
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided December 15, 1970PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtCutter, J.
This petition for a wit of error relates to the 1966 convictions considered by this court in Commonwealth v. Subilosky, 352 Mass. 153. In that case, on March 3, 1967, this court affirmed Subilosky’s 1966 convictions for the first degree murder of Pasquale J. Lombardi (acting manager of a Worcester bank), armed robbery, and related offences.
On November 13, 1967, the Supreme Court decided Burgett v. Texas, 389 U. S. 109, 115. That case determined that it was no longer proper to “permit a [prior] conviction obtained in violation of Gideon v. Wainwright [372 U. S. 335] to be used against” a…
2Cases cited36 opinions
- Chapman v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- Gideon v. WainwrightSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Stovall v. DennoSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- Harrington v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
- Burgett v. TexasSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
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3Cited by27 opinions
- Loper v. BetoSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Commonwealth v. BakerMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1975
- Commonwealth v. HallMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1976
- Commonwealth v. DeeranMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1973
- Joseph Subilosky v. Robert J. Moore, as He is Superintendent of Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Walpole, MassachusettsCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1971
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