Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Donahue
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided February 3, 2000PublishedCited by 81 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtSpina, J.
The defendant was convicted of murder in the first degree under theories of deliberate premeditation and extreme atrocity or cruelty. On appeal, he claims that (1) the affidavit offered in support of the application for the search warrant for his home and car failed to establish probable cause; and (2) pursuant to G. L. c. 278, § 33E, this court should reduce the verdict to murder in the second degree or order a new trial because the evidence of premeditation and extreme atrocity or cruelty was unfairly bolstered by the testimony of the psychiatrists who had examined him. We reject the…
2Cases cited25 opinions
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- Commonwealth v. WrightMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1992
- Commonwealth v. TuckerMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1905
- United States v. Robert Leonard LucarzCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1970
- Commonwealth v. CinelliMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1983
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