Legal Opinion

Commonwealth v. Ryan

Massachusetts Appeals Court

Decided June 28, 2018No. 17–P–642PublishedCited by 3 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtShin, J.

*487A jury convicted the defendant of assault and battery causing bodily injury on a person sixty years of age or older, in violation of G. L. c. 265, § 13K(b ), and larceny of property with a value exceeding $250 from a person sixty years of age or older, in violation of G. L. c. 266, § 30(5). On appeal she argues that the Commonwealth failed to prove that the victim suffered a "bodily injury" within the meaning of G. L. c. 265, § 13K(b ), that her larceny conviction cannot stand because the Commonwealth failed to disprove her claim of honest yet mistaken belief, that the prosecutor misstated…

2Cases cited23 opinions

  1. Commonwealth v. LatimoreMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1979
  2. Commonwealth v. SaferianMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1974
  3. Sullivan v. Town of BrooklineMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2001
  4. Commonwealth v. ZinserMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2006
  5. Commonwealth v. AdamidesMassachusetts Appeals Court · 1994

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3Cited by3 opinions

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  3. Commonwealth v. SudlerMassachusetts Appeals Court · 2018

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