Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Cowan
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided April 25, 1996PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtLynch, J.
On September 23, 1994, the defendant was tried before a jury of six in the District Court and found guilty of possession of a firearm in a public place without a license under G. L. c. 269, § 10 (a) (1994 ed.), and sentenced to a mandatory minimum term of one year in a house of correction. The defendant filed a timely notice of appeal.1 Thereafter, the defendant moved to revise or revoke his sentence, and the judge revised the sentence to permit the defendant to serve the final six months of his sentence under house arrest secured by his wearing an electronic monitoring device. The judge’s…
2Cases cited9 opinions
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- Commonwealth v. AmiraultMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1993
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3Cited by30 opinions
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