Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Burden
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided April 21, 1983PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtHale, C.J.
The defendant was convicted on indictments charging him with breaking and entering, armed assault in a dwelling, armed robbery and aggravated rape. He was also convicted of second degree murder on an indictment charging him with murder in the first degree.
He appeals from those convictions and assigns as error (1) the judge’s denial of several motions brought to mitigate extensive pretrial publicity; (2) the judge’s instruction to the venire that capital punishment did not exist in Massachusetts; (3) the admission of hearsay statements of the victim; (4) the failure to exclude television…
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- United States v. DennisCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1950
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