Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Babbitt
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided February 3, 2000PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtSpina, J.
The defendant, Kevin M. Babbitt, was convicted by a jury of murder in the first degree of Wilbert Greene, Jr., on theories of deliberate premeditation and extreme atrocity or cruelty. David Rosado also was convicted of murder in the first degree of the same victim following a separate trial.1 Witnesses testified at Babbitt’s trial that Rosado had spoken about the murder in Babbitt’s presence. Rosado did not testify. Babbitt claims that the admission of the witnesses’ testimony violated the confrontation clauses of the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution and art. 12 of the…
2Cases cited31 opinions
- Bruton v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Ohio v. RobertsSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
- Idaho v. WrightSupreme Court of the United States · 1990
- Mattox v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1895
- White v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1992
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3Cited by21 opinions
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