Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Clark
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided June 29, 2000PublishedCited by 42 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtAbrams, J.
A jury convicted the defendant, David R. Clark, of murder in the first degree based on a theory of deliberate premeditation. The defendant claims error arising from the denial of his pretrial motions. The defendant also alleges that the judge erred in allowing a view of the murder site; in declining to excuse certain jurors for cause; and in failing to instruct the jurors on manslaughter. Further, the defendant claims that a single justice of this court erred in upholding a ruling by the motion judge that evidence that the defendant was on parole at the time the murder took place was…
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