Legal Opinion
Limone v. United States
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided August 27, 2009No. 08-1327, 08-1328PublishedCited by 160 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
The genesis of these appeals can be traced to the gangland slaying of Edward “Teddy” Deegan, which occurred in 1965 in Chelsea, Massachusetts. Initially, the murder went unsolved. Two years later, agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), intent on frying bigger fish, cultivated a cooperating witness, Joseph Barboza, with tight ties to organized crime. Barboza thereafter met with state authorities and implicated several individuals in the Deegan slaying.
Based principally on Barboza’s testimony, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts secured indictments in 1967 and…
2Cases cited111 opinions
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- Heck v. HumphreySupreme Court of the United States · 1994
- Anderson v. City of Bessemer CitySupreme Court of the United States · 1985
- Furman v. GeorgiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
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