Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Aguiar
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided July 20, 1987PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtLynch, J.
After a jury trial in the Superior Court, the defendant, Robert Aguiar, was found guilty of murder in the first degree, and of unlawfully carrying a firearm. The defendant’s motion for required findings of not guilty, filed at the close of the Commonwealth’s case and renewed at the close of all the evidence, was denied. On June 11, 1984, the defendant filed a timely notice of appeal and a motion for a new trial. On March 18, 1985, the defendant filed a motion to set aside the verdict pursuant to Mass. R. Crim. P. 25 (b) (2), 378 Mass. 896 (1979), seeking a reduction in the verdict from murder…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Commonwealth v. GrazianoMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1975
- Commonwealth v. JoyceMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1981
- Commonwealth v. HaywoodMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1979
- Commonwealth v. RedmondMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1970
- Commonwealth v. KeoughMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1982
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3Cited by25 opinions
- Commonwealth v. StockhammerMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1991
- Commonwealth v. BuiMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1995
- Commonwealth v. AllisonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2001
- Commonwealth v. TrinhMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2011
- Commonwealth v. KnightMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2002
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