Legal Opinion

Commonwealth v. Gould

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Decided May 20, 1980Published

1Opinion of the Court

380 Mass. 672 (1980)

405 N.E.2d 927

COMMONWEALTH

vs.

DENNIS L. GOULD.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Norfolk.

December 4, 1979.

May 20, 1980.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., QUIRICO, BRAUCHER, KAPLAN, WILKINS, LIACOS, & ABRAMS, JJ.

Robert Snider for the defendant.

Charles J. Hely, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

ABRAMS, J.

On July 17, 1978, the defendant fatally stabbed his former girl friend. After a witness to the attack intervened and told the defendant to stop, he mumbled, "I attacked her. She was impure ... [i]mpure, impure." For more than five years preceding the fatal…

2Cases cited57 opinions

  1. Miranda v. ArizonaSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
  2. United States v. Archie W. BrawnerCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1972
  3. Commonwealth v. McHoulMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1967
  4. Commonwealth v. DickersonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1977
  5. People v. StegerCalifornia Supreme Court · 1976

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