Legal Opinion

Commonwealth v. Jose M. Shaw

Massachusetts Appeals Court

Decided July 23, 2025No. 24-P-864Published

1Opinion of the Court

APPEALS COURT

COMMONWEALTH vs. JOSE M. SHAW

Docket:

24-P-864

Dates:

April 3, 2025 – July 23, 2025

Present:

Massing, Englander, & D'Angelo, JJ.

County:

Plymouth

Keywords:

Firearms. Evidence, Authentication, Court record, Prior conviction. Statute, Construction. License. Practice, Criminal, Argument by prosecutor, Presumptions and burden of proof.

Indictments found and returned in the Superior Court Department on January 13, 2023.

The cases were tried before William F. Sullivan, J.

Haylie Jacobson, Committee for Public Counsel Services, for the defendant.

Arne Hantson, Assistant District Attorney, for the…

2Cases cited26 opinions

  1. Commonwealth v. LatimoreMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1979
  2. Bryan v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1998
  3. Commonwealth v. CraytonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2014
  4. Commonwealth v. AzarMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2002
  5. Commonwealth v. CohenMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1992

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