Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Taylor
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided November 23, 2009PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtSpina, J.
The defendant was convicted of deliberately premeditated murder and armed home invasion. On appeal, he alleges constitutional error in (1) the admission of portions of the report of a forensic pathologist who was not available for cross-examination and (2) the denial of cross-examination of a key Commonwealth witness on a matter of bias. He further alleges error in (3) the prosecutor’s closing argument, which misstated important evidence, and (4) the judge’s use of the example of an application for a gun license to explain why police might, for neutral reasons, have a defendant’s photograph…
2Cases cited15 opinions
- Commonwealth v. WrightMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1992
- Commonwealth v. KozecMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1987
- Commonwealth v. LaVelleMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1993
- Commonwealth v. ToroMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1985
- Commonwealth v. NardiMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2008
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3Cited by21 opinions
- Commonwealth v. DurandMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2010
- Commonwealth v. JonesMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2015
- Commonwealth v. MendezMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2017
- Commonwealth v. RodriguezMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2010
- Commonwealth v. DePinaMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2017
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