Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Wood
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided August 7, 2014No. SJC 10977PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtCordy, J.
In the early morning hours of February 13, 2004, Betsy Tripp was bound with telephone wire and murdered in her home, a condominium on Monsignor Way in the Dorchester section of Boston. Her throat was slit. The man who shared the condominium with her, Morris Thompson, was shot in the face, coming close to death, and losing an eye. The perpetrators fled in a vehicle that Thompson had borrowed from a neighbor in the condominium complex and for which Thompson had the keys. The vehicle was abandoned in the parking lot of a Dorchester elementary school and set ablaze shortly after 2 a.m. that same…
2Cases cited63 opinions
- United States v. AgursSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- Oregon v. KennedySupreme Court of the United States · 1982
- Commonwealth v. KozecMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1987
- Commonwealth v. BowdenMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1980
- Commonwealth v. YesilcimanMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1990
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