Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Phillips
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided November 24, 2008PublishedCited by 43 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtGreaney, J.
On the evening of January 11, 2000, the victim, Silverio Johnson, after being repeatedly stabbed, and severely beaten, was hung upside down from the window of his second-floor apartment and dropped to the ground. The victim survived the fall, but later died. A jury convicted the defendants, Parrish Phillips (Phillips) and Phillip Rise (Rise), of the victim’s murder. The jury found the defendants guilty on all three theories of murder, deliberate premeditation, extreme atrocity or cmelty, and felony-murder (predicated on armed robbery).2 The defendants were also convicted of armed robbery with…
2Cases cited53 opinions
- Terry v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Commonwealth v. LatimoreMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1979
- Commonwealth v. BowdenMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1980
- Commonwealth v. MelloMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1995
- Commonwealth v. BiancoMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1983
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3Cited by43 opinions
- Commonwealth v. CraytonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2014
- Commonwealth v. ZanettiMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2009
- Commonwealth v. BrittMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2013
- Commonwealth v. WatsonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2009
- Commonwealth v. YoungMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2012
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