Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Penn
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided September 9, 2015No. SJC 10503PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtGants, C.J.
A Superior Court jury convicted the defendant of murder in the first degree on a theory of deliberate premeditation for the killing of the victim, Aneury Guzman. The critical issue in the case was whether the victim had been shot by the defendant or by the defendant’s friend, Benjamin Serrano, who minutes before the shooting had confronted the victim with a firearm, handed the firearm to the defendant, and then engaged in a fist fight with the victim.
On appeal, the defendant claims that he is entitled to reversal of the murder conviction because the evidence was insufficient as a matter of…
2Cases cited35 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Jackson v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Miller v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 2012
- Commonwealth v. LatimoreMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1979
- Presley v. GeorgiaSupreme Court of the United States · 2010
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3Cited by24 opinions
- Commonwealth v. BrownMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2017
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