Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Sowell
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided March 22, 1993No. 91-P-834PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJacobs, J.
After a Superior Court jury found him guilty of second degree murder, the defendant retained new counsel and appealed to this court. The conviction was affirmed in Commonwealth v. Sowell, 22 Mass. App. Ct. 959 (1986), and the Supreme Judicial Court denied the defendant’s petition for further appellate review. 398 Mass. 1104 (1986). In 1988, the defendant filed a motion for a new trial which was argued to the trial judge in 1991 by a third attorney, his current counsel. On appeal from the denial of that motion, the defendant argues (1) that the cumulative effect of the trial judge’s erroneous…
2Cases cited37 opinions
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- Commonwealth v. FreemanMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1967
- David A. Gray v. James GreerCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1986
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3Cited by12 opinions
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