Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Love
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided November 16, 1988No. 87-896 & 88-P-389PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtKaplan, J.
An indictment charged the defendant, Alvin Love, with a violation of the “bail-jumping” statute, G. L. c. 276, § 82A. The statute, inserted by St. 1965, c. 396, provides: “A person who is released by court order or other lawful authority on bail or recognizance on condition that he will appear personally at a specified time and place and who fails without sufficient excuse to so appear shall be punished ”
At trial to a Middlesex jury, the Commonwealth established the following through Robert McDade, an assistant clerk at the Superior Court in Cambridge. The defendant on June 10, 1985, was…
2Cases cited34 opinions
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- Colten v. KentuckySupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Commonwealth v. SaferianMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1974
- United States v. National Dairy Products Corp.Supreme Court of the United States · 1963
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3Cited by15 opinions
- Alvin Love v. Norman ButlerCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1991
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