Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Campbell
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided April 27, 1967PublishedCited by 145 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtReardon, J.
On the morning of July 14,1964, a railroad employee came upon the body of Cindy Lou Baxa, aged seventeen, in an area of Holyoke off Route 5 known as the dinosaur tracks. The body was nude from the waist down. On the same day a pair of slacks, underwear and sneakers belonging to the deceased girl were found in Southampton, and the following morning two pairs of underpants which she was wearing on the night of July 13 were found on a dirt road which led to a cornfield in that town.
The defendants, Campbell and Nietsche, both aged seventeen, had come together in the late evening of July 13 in…
2Cases cited51 opinions
- Wong Sun v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Schmerber v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
- Jones v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1960
- United States v. JeffersSupreme Court of the United States · 1951
- United States v. LeeSupreme Court of the United States · 1927
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3Cited by145 opinions
- Commonwealth v. MahnkeMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1975
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- Commonwealth v. FitzgeraldMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1978
- Commonwealth v. WaldenMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1980
- Commonwealth v. BiancoMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1983
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