Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Voight
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided July 5, 1990No. 89-P-1365PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtKass, J.
It is no easy task to determine which party in this insular prosecution is the more petulant and stubborn. The legal position of those parties is more clear. Edgartown wrongly charged the defendant Kevin Voight with violating G. L. c. 269, § 14A, which punishes making telephone calls solely to harass, annoy, or molest, and a judge of the District Court erroneously denied a motion for a required finding of not guilty. Voight was found guilty by a jury-of-six.
Some time after 3:00 a.m., Voight, a head waiter and assistant manager at Andrea’s Restaurant in Edgartown, com pleted his work and…
2Cases cited14 opinions
- Von Lusch v. StateCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1977
- Donohue v. City of NewburyportMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1912
- People v. SmithNew York Supreme Court · 1977
- Hansen v. CommonwealthMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1962
- City of New Bedford v. New Bedford, Woods Hole & Steamship AuthorityMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1952
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3Cited by8 opinions
- Commonwealth v. HydeMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2001
- Commonwealth v. DowdMassachusetts Appeals Court · 1994
- O'BRIEN v. Town of AgawamDistrict Court, D. Massachusetts · 2007
- Commonwealth v. StrahanMassachusetts Appeals Court · 1991
- Woods Hole, Martha's Vineyard & Nantucket Steamship Authority v. Town of FalmouthMassachusetts Appeals Court · 2009
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