Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Ray
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided February 12, 2014PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtCordy, J.
On the evening of June 10, 2004, two teenage boys were shot from behind on Hazelwood Street in the Roxbury section of Boston following ongoing animosity between two groups of local teenagers. One was injured, and the other, Da-keem Galloway (Dakeem), fourteen years of age, died from a gunshot wound to the head. The defendant, Charon Ray, who was sixteen years of age at the time of the shooting, was subsequently indicted for the murder. In June, 2007, after a jury trial, he was found guilty of deliberately premeditated murder in the first degree.1 He appealed from the convictions, as well as…
2Cases cited51 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Miranda v. ArizonaSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
- Miller v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 2012
- Commonwealth v. SaferianMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1974
- Presley v. GeorgiaSupreme Court of the United States · 2010
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3Cited by16 opinions
- Diatchenko v. District Attorney for the Suffolk District Commonwealth v. RoberioMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2015
- Commonwealth v. PennMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2015
- Commonwealth v. MeloMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2015
- Commonwealth v. McGheeMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2015
- Commonwealth v. HarrisMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2014
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