Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Fredette
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided December 31, 1985PublishedCited by 55 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtHennessey, C.J.
The defendant appeals his convictions by a Superior Court jury for breaking and entering a dwelling house in the nighttime, rape, unnatural rape, and assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon. On appeal, the defendant argues that the admission of certain fingerprint evidence was error and that he did not receive effective assistance of counsel because his trial counsel failed to object to the prosecutor’s questioning of witnesses and because trial counsel did not renew objections to the admission of the challenged fingerprint evidence after previously unknown facts came to light at…
2Cases cited36 opinions
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- Gerstein v. PughSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
- Nix v. WilliamsSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Silverthorne Lumber Co. v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1920
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