Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Williams
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided January 16, 1987PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtO’Connor, J.
The defendants were indicted on charges arising from the armed robbery and stabbing of a clerk at a package liquor store in Lowell on March 4, 1981. Both men were charged with the murder in the first degree of Donald E. Roberts, armed robbery while masked, and assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon. The defendant Williams was convicted on all the indictments against him. He was sentenced to concurrent terms of life imprisonment at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Walpole (Cedar Junction) on the convictions for murder and for armed robbery while masked. The indictment…
2Cases cited26 opinions
- Commonwealth v. LatimoreMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1979
- Commonwealth v. SoaresMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1979
- Davis v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1920
- Commonwealth v. GraceMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1986
- Commonwealth v. MoranMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1982
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3Cited by37 opinions
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