Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Brown
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided June 28, 2012PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtGants, J.
In the early evening on July 4, 2007, twenty-two year old Michael Wiggins was shot while he watched a fistfight on a street in a Dorchester neighborhood in Boston. He later died of his wounds. The defendant was charged with the killing and was convicted by a Superior Court jury of murder in the first degree on a theory of deliberate premeditation, in violation of G. L. c. 265, § l.1
The defendant presents four primary claims on appeal. First, he claims error in the denial of his motion to suppress, which contended that the statements he made to the police following his arrest were involuntary.…
2Cases cited25 opinions
- Commonwealth v. HelfantMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1986
- Commonwealth v. StouteMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1996
- O'Sullivan v. ShawMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2000
- Commonwealth v. MoffettMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1981
- Commonwealth v. CiampaMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1989
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3Cited by16 opinions
- Commonwealth v. HowardMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2014
- Commonwealth v. CarrMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2013
- Commonwealth v. CarterMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2016
- Commonwealth v. MeloMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2015
- Commonwealth v. BellMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2015
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