Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Brown
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided February 11, 2015No. SJC 11570PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtHines, J.
The defendants, Enfrid Brown, Jr., and Wiliam J. Johnson, Jr., were indicted on charges of murder and armed entry with the intent to commit a felony in connection with the 1973 death of the victim, Hakim A. Jamal. 3 The defendants were convicted by a jury of murder in the first degree at their first trial. 4 We reversed the first convictions on grounds not pertinent to this appeal and remanded for a new trial. Commonwealth v. Brown, 367 Mass. 24, 32 (1975) (Brown I). They were retried and again convicted. We affirmed the second convictions. Commonwealth v. Brown, 378 Mass. 165, 166 (1979)…
2Cases cited21 opinions
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- Commonwealth v. WrightMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2014
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3Cited by7 opinions
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