Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Johnson
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided August 28, 1989No. 88-P-1204PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtKass, J.
To the cashier and night cook of the Dragon Inn Restaurant in Dorchester the defendant Johnson had become a familiar face. He had robbed the Dragon Inn five times and had attempted a sixth robbery within a four-month period. Shot and apprehended during the last visit, the defendant was convicted on five indictments of armed robbery and one indictment of armed assault with the intent to commit robbery. On his appeal Johnson protests that he was not armed on the sixth raid on the Dragon Inn’s cash register; that the judge imposed a vindictively harsh sentence; and that veiled references by…
2Cases cited29 opinions
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- Hitchcock v. DuggerSupreme Court of the United States · 1987
- Jimmy Frank v. Frank Blackburn, Warden, Louisiana State PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1980
- Commonwealth v. RobertsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1979
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3Cited by27 opinions
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