Legal Opinion

Commonwealth v. Tirrell

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Decided February 11, 1981PublishedCited by 37 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

*503Liacos, J.

About midnight of January 23, 1979, the defendant and Carl Longo drove in Longo’s car to a doctor’s office in Greenfield where the defendant broke into the office, looked for money, but finding none, left. After driving around Greenfield, the two broke into the local welfare office. While the defendant made a long distance telephone call, Longo rifled through desk drawers in another room, and removed food stamp identification cards. The telephone call made by the defendant was to an ex-girl friend in Maryland whom he implored to marry him. She refused. He became quite angry and told…

2Cases cited21 opinions

  1. Boykin v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
  2. North Carolina v. PearceSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
  3. Brady v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
  4. Santobello v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
  5. McMann v. RichardsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1970

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3Cited by37 opinions

  1. Commonwealth v. ScottMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2014
  2. Commonwealth v. DeMarcoMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1982
  3. Commonwealth v. HyattMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1995
  4. Commonwealth v. PrestonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1984
  5. Commonwealth v. SouzaMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1984

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