Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Erdely
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided August 3, 1999PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtWilkins, C.J.
The defendant was convicted of murder in the first degree of an eighty-six year old woman in her Chicopee home on December 15, 1994. The jury found that the defendant had acted with deliberate premeditation and that he was guilty *150of felony-murder. He was also convicted of armed robbery and armed home invasion. We affirm the convictions.
The jury could have found the following. The defendant knew that the victim, a great-aunt of the defendant’s then girl friend, kept cash in her pocketbook beside her day bed upon which she slept. The defendant, carrying a knife, broke into the victim’s home…
2Cases cited12 opinions
- Commonwealth v. RobertsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1979
- Commonwealth v. JamesMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1997
- Commonwealth v. MillerMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1972
- Commonwealth v. WatkinsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1997
- Commonwealth v. RuddockMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1998
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3Cited by14 opinions
- Commonwealth v. ArriagaMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2003
- Commonwealth v. BrownMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2007
- Commonwealth v. EvansMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2003
- Commonwealth v. LapageMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2001
- Commonwealth v. MosesMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2002
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