Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Barclay
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided March 7, 1997PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtO’Connor, J.
On July 1, 1987, a Norfolk County grand jury indicted the defendant, Peter Barclay, for the murder of Mark Steven Kaufman. On February 22, 1988, the defendant pleaded guilty to so much of the offense as alleged manslaughter, and on March 30, 1988, the judge sentenced him to from fifteen to eighteen years to be served at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Cedar Junction.
The defendant timely filed a motion to revise or revoke his sentence pursuant to Mass. R. Crim. P. 29, 378 Mass. 899 (1979), accompanied by an affidavit in support of the motion. Rule 29 (a) provides, in pertinent…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Commonwealth v. GauldenMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1981
- Commonwealth v. LayneMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1982
- Commonwealth v. SitkoMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1977
- Tisei v. Building Inspector of MarlboroughMassachusetts Appeals Court · 1975
- Commonwealth v. AmiraultMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1993
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3Cited by19 opinions
- Commonwealth v. WoodwardMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1998
- Holmes v. SpencerCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 2012
- Commonwealth v. GoodwinMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2010
- Commonwealth v. DeJesusMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2003
- Commonwealth v. MorseMassachusetts Appeals Court · 2000
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