Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Brown
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided August 23, 1999No. 97-P-2112PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtKaplan, J.
Our previous opinion on this appeal, Commonwealth v. Brown, 46 Mass. App. Ct. 279 (1999), affirmed the defendant’s convictions of several crimes, including his conviction and sentence on an indictment for home invasion, G. L. c. 265, § 18C (inserted by St. 1993, c. 333, effective December 27, 1993).
Section 18C in its first sentence states in part:
*617“[An offender] shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for life or for any term of not less than twenty years.”
(The original text of § 18C is reproduced at note 1, infra-, an amendment of 1998 is set out in our opinion below.)1 The…
2Cases cited17 opinions
- Aldoupolis v. CommonwealthMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1982
- Murphy v. CommonwealthMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1899
- Commonwealth v. ClaudioMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1994
- Commonwealth v. LightfootMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1984
- Commonwealth v. BrownMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1896
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3Cited by5 opinions
- Commonwealth v. BrownMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2000
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- Andrew v. Commissioner of CorrectionMassachusetts Appeals Court · 2005