Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Brown
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided August 29, 2007PublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtCordy, J.
During the early hours of June 16, 1996, Athos Oliveira and Thomas Meyer, while walking separately along Appleton Street in the South End section of Boston, encountered an assailant fitting the description of the defendant, Eric Brown. Each was shot at close range with a shotgun. Both men died almost instantly from severe wounds to the face and neck. Ten days later, police in Lincoln stopped an automobile driven by Brown. Inside the car they found the shotgun that had fired the spent shell casings found near the victims’ bodies.
After his arrest, Brown underwent extensive psychiatric…
2Cases cited57 opinions
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- Duren v. MissouriSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
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3Cited by33 opinions
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