Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Boyarsky
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided December 9, 2008PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBotsford, J.
On January 31, 2003, Alma Karina Amezcua was beaten and stabbed to death in her fiancé’s apartment in Leominster. On September 29, 2005, a jury convicted Eric M. Boyarsky of murder in the first degree on the theories of extreme atrocity or cruelty, premeditation, and felony-murder. The jury also convicted the defendant of home invasion in violation of G. L. c. 265, § 18C. On appeal, the defendant argues that (1) evidence of electronically intercepted statements he made in the course of telephone calls he placed from the Worcester County jail should have been suppressed on both statutory and…
2Cases cited29 opinions
- Commonwealth v. SturtivantMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1875
- Commonwealth v. DiGiambattistaMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2004
- Commonwealth v. WilsonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1998
- Commonwealth v. WilsonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2004
- DeJoinville v. CommonwealthMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1980
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3Cited by18 opinions
- Commonwealth v. BarbosaMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2010
- Commonwealth v. LopesMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2009
- Commonwealth v. ZeiningerMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2011
- Commonwealth v. LongMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2009
- Commonwealth v. MorgantiMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2009
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