Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Mobley
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided March 12, 1976PublishedCited by 50 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtHennessey, C.J.
The defendant was convicted of the crime of armed robbery after a jury trial in the Superior Court, and was sentenced to a term of six to fifteen years at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Walpole. In this appeal, which is brought under G. L. c. 278, §§ 33A-33G, the defendant asserts that pre-trial identification procedures were so unconstitutionally suggestive as to require the exclusion of subsequent in-court identification by the robbery victim. The Superior Court judge denied the defendant’s motion to suppress the out-of-court and in-court identification testimony, and the…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Simmons v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Neil v. BiggersSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Taylor v. LouisianaSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
- Daniel v. LouisianaSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
- Commonwealth v. RossMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1972
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3Cited by50 opinions
- Commonwealth v. PaszkoMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1984
- Commonwealth v. KostkaMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1976
- Commonwealth v. ChaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1977
- Commonwealth v. CliffordMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1978
- Commonwealth v. WeichellMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1983
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