Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Contos
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided September 4, 2001PublishedCited by 38 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtSpina, J.
The defendant was convicted on three indictments charging murder in the first degree on a theory of deliberate premeditation. The victims were a woman, Catherine Rice, with whom the defendant had an affair, and their two young children, Benjamin Rice, four years old, and Ryan Contos, two months old. On appeal the defendant claims error in (1) the failure to give a voluntary manslaughter instruction; (2) the allowance of the Commonwealth’s motion for a psychiatric evaluation of the defendant after the defendant said he was not advancing an insanity defense and after counsel announced he did…
2Cases cited35 opinions
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- Commonwealth v. SiresMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1992
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3Cited by38 opinions
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