Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Boyd
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided March 25, 1975PublishedCited by 139 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtReardon, J.
The defendant was convicted in the Superior Court of first degree murder in a case taken under G. L. c. 278, §§ 33A-33G. The case is here on assignments of error.
The facts are not in dispute. At approximately 7:30 a.m. on December 19, 1971, the defendant, incarcerated at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Walpole, entered the inmate cafeteria where, with his own tray empty, he sat at a table of Black Muslims, including one Irving 2X Jones who was their minister and leader. Another inmate, Frank Smith, entered the dining room shortly afterward, and the defendant thereupon left the…
2Cases cited88 opinions
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- Klopfer v. North CarolinaSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- Spencer v. TexasSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
- McGautha v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
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3Cited by139 opinions
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