Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Ferraro
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided January 10, 1997PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtAbrams, J.
A single justice has stayed the proceedings and reserved and reported the question whether it was error for a motion judge to deny the Commonwealth’s motion for joinder of indictments charging the defendant with sexual assaults on seven young boys. The Commonwealth asserts that its evidence “in its totality shows a common scheme and a pattern of operation that tends to prove all the indictments.” Commonwealth v. Feijoo, 419 Mass. 486, 494-495 (1995). The Commonwealth argues that joinder is mandated because its “evidence would [be] admissible at all the trials if each indictment had been tried…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Commonwealth v. KingMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1982
- Commonwealth v. MontanezMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1991
- Commonwealth v. GallisonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1981
- United States v. Kent E. GrayCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1992
- Commonwealth v. FeijooMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1995
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3Cited by10 opinions
- Commonwealth v. DelaneyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1997
- Commonwealth v. GaynorMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2005
- Commonwealth v. PillaiMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2005
- Commonwealth v. WalkerMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2004
- Commonwealth v. SullivanMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2002
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