Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Fuller
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided March 13, 1985PublishedCited by 68 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtAbrams, J.
The defendant, Charles E. Fuller, Jr., appeals from his conviction of murder in the first degree, and from the denial of his motion for anew trial. On appeal, the defendant asserts that the judge should have allowed his motion for a required finding of not guilty. See Mass. R. Crim. P. 25, as amended, 389 Mass. 1107 (1983). The defendant also argues that it was error to deny his motion for a new trial 1 because (1) he was denied his Federal and State constitutional rights to effective assistance of counsel; (2) his Sixth Amendment right to confrontation was violated by the judge’s allowance…
2Cases cited21 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Brady v. MarylandSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Commonwealth v. LatimoreMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1979
- Commonwealth v. SaferianMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1974
- Commonwealth v. FreemanMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1967
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3Cited by68 opinions
- Commonwealth v. WrightMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1992
- Nazzaro Scarpa v. Larry E. Dubois, Etc.Court of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1994
- Ouber v. GuarinoCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 2002
- Commonwealth v. MelloMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1995
- Commonwealth v. CurtisMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1994
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