Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Gomes
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided January 12, 2015No. SJC 11537PublishedCited by 59 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Gants, CJ.
In the early morning of September 10, 2011, the defendant slashed the face of the victim, Zachary Sevigny, with a box cutter while the victim was sitting in the driver’s seat of his vehicle. A Superior Court jury found the defendant guilty of mayhem, in violation of G. L. c. 265, § 14; assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon, in violation of G. L. c. 265, § 15A (b); and breaking and entering a vehicle in the nighttime with the intent to commit a felony, in violation of G. L. c. 266, § 16. 1 On appeal, the defendant claims that the judge erred by giving the model jury…
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