Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Longval
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided June 12, 1979PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtHennessey, C.J.
The single issue presented by the defendant is whether State prison sentences imposed on him totaling forty to fifty years, and later reduced by the Appellate Division of the Superior Court to thirty to forty years, were grossly and unlawfully disparate from a codefendant’s sentences to three years in a house of correction and an additional term of probation.
Norman L. Longval, Richard T. Ellard, and Kenneth M. Golden were indicted jointly on two charges of armed robbery, assault by means of a dangerous weapon, unlawfully carrying a sawed-off shotgun, and using a motor vehicle without…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- United States v. Leroy WileyCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1960
- United States v. James Lee StockwellCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1973
- Commonwealth v. O'NEALMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1975
- Burleson v. StateAlaska Supreme Court · 1975
- Commonwealth v. SitkoMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1977
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3Cited by20 opinions
- Commonwealth v. SanchezMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1989
- Commonwealth v. CookMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1980
- Commonwealth v. KnightMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1984
- Norman L. Longval v. Lawrence R. MeachumCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1982
- Commonwealth v. GrimshawMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1992
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