Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Crawford
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided February 25, 1999PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtMarshall, J.
In September, 1991, a Suffolk County grand jury returned an indictment charging the defendant, Latasha Crawford, with the murder of Nathaniel Mason Jones. In July, 1992, after hearing four hours of evidence, a jury convicted her of murder in the first degree on a theory of extreme atrocity or cruelty.1 G. L. c. 265, § 1. Crawford was not the shooter of the *61victim: the Commonwealth proceeded against her as a joint venturer.2
Crawford claims error on multiple grounds. Among these are her claim that it was error for the trial judge to refuse to allow her to present expert testimony, both at a…
2Cases cited29 opinions
- North Carolina v. PearceSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
- Jackson v. DennoSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
- Frye v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1923
- Commonwealth v. TavaresMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1982
- Commonwealth v. JudgeMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1995
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3Cited by24 opinions
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- Commonwealth v. BoatengMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2003
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