Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Shuman
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided March 6, 1984PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtO’Connor, J.
The defendant, an attorney, appeals from his conviction of conspiracy with Morton Swartz, 1 a physician, to steal money of the value of more than one hundred dollars by defrauding an insurance company. He argues that there was insufficient evidence of his guilt, that he was entrapped, and that the conduct of police undercover agents in staging an automobile accident and filing falsified documents denied him his right to due process of law.
Before trial the defendant moved for a dismissal of the indictment, asserting entrapment and, as a second ground, that police conduct had been “so offensive…
2Cases cited15 opinions
- United States v. RussellSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
- Commonwealth v. LatimoreMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1979
- Hampton v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- United States v. William Christopher Twigg, Iii, United States of America v. Henry Alfred NevilleCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1978
- Commonwealth v. LewisMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1963
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3Cited by31 opinions
- Commonwealth v. NadwornyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1985
- Commonwealth v. TraceyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1993
- Commonwealth v. MonteagudoMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1998
- Commonwealth v. SaletinoMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2007
- Commonwealth v. MadiganMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2007
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