Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Balliro
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided July 2, 1976PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtWilkins, J.
On August 18,1965, following the reversal of the defendant’s convictions in Commonwealth v. Balliro, 349 Mass. 505 (1965), the defendant changed his plea to guilty to two indictments charging him with murder in the first degree and to one indictment charging him with breaking and entering a dwelling house in the nighttime with intent to commit an assault by means of a dangerous weapon and with committing that assault. He was sentenced, concurrently, to life sentences on the murder indictments, to be served from and after a sentence he was then serving. On the third indictment, he was…
2Cases cited18 opinions
- Boykin v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
- Furman v. GeorgiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Commonwealth v. SaferianMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1974
- Haldane M. Plunkett v. Commissioner of Internal RevenueCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1972
- Commonwealth v. JacksonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1976
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3Cited by12 opinions
- Commonwealth v. Colon-CruzMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1984
- Commonwealth v. BolducMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1978
- Commonwealth v. SmithMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1981
- Commonwealth v. HiskinMassachusetts Appeals Court · 2007
- Commonwealth v. BalliroMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2002
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