Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Hung Tan Vo
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided May 18, 1998PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtLynch, J.
A jury convicted the defendant of murder in the *465first degree by reason of deliberate premeditation. On appeal, the defendant argues that (1) his motion for a new trial should have been allowed because he had become incompetent during the course of trial, and (2) defense counsel’s failure to raise the question of the defendant’s incompetence during trial constituted ineffective assistance of counsel. In a pro se brief the defendant argues that the judge’s initial charge and supplemental instructions on malice and his supplemental instruction on deliberate premeditation1 created a substantial…
2Cases cited20 opinions
- Commonwealth v. SaferianMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1974
- Commonwealth v. WrightMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1992
- Commonwealth v. DascalakisMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1923
- Commonwealth v. MelloMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1995
- Commonwealth v. MontanezMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1991
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3Cited by31 opinions
- Commonwealth v. CoonanMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1999
- Commonwealth v. BrittMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2013
- Commonwealth v. JohnsonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1999
- Commonwealth v. NievesMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1999
- Commonwealth v. RobidouxMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2007
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