Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Lessieur
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided July 27, 2015No. SJC 10784PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtHines, J.
On March 17, 1994, Mark Jones was shot twice in the head and died from his injuries. In April, 2006, Nolyn Surprenant (Surprenant) implicated himself and the defendant in the murder. Surprenant was indicted for murder two months later. In March, 2007, Surprenant made an agreement with the Commonwealth to testify against the defendant in exchange for a recommendation of five years in State prison on a manslaughter charge. The defendant was subsequently indicted and, following a jury trial in the Superior Court, was convicted in October, 2009, of murder in the first degree on the theory of…
2Cases cited29 opinions
- Commonwealth v. LatimoreMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1979
- Commonwealth v. WrightMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1992
- Commonwealth v. GraceMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1986
- Commonwealth v. TuckerMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1905
- Commonwealth v. KingMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2005
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3Cited by17 opinions
- Commonwealth v. VargasMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2016
- Commonwealth v. LongMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2017
- Commonwealth v. LallyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2016
- Commonwealth v. PinaMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2019
- Commonwealth v. HobbsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2019
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