Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Keizer
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided February 7, 1979PublishedCited by 86 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtLiacos, J.
The defendant was convicted of armed robbery (G. L. c. 265, § 17) by a jury and sentenced to serve a term of from twelve to eighteen years at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Walpole. He took an appeal and applied for direct appellate review which we allowed. Due to the improper exclusion at trial of certain exculpatory evidence, we reverse. We state the facts briefly.
At approximately 10:30 p.m. on February 8, 1976, two men, one with what appeared to be a square-barrelled pistol, the other with what appeared to be a sawed-off shotgun concealed by a paper bag, 1 entered the office…
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