Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. DiBenedetto
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided May 8, 1998PublishedCited by 39 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtWilkins, C.J.
The defendants, convicted of deliberately premeditated murder in the first degree of Joseph John Bottari and Frank Angelo Chiuchiolo, appeal, raising a multitude of issues.2 We reversed the defendants’ previous convictions of murder in the first degree because recorded testimony of Richard Storella, a witness who was unavailable at trial, had been improperly admitted. Commonwealth v. DiBenedetto, 414 Mass. 37, 41, 44 (1992). See Commonwealth v. Tanso, 411 Mass. 640, 650, cert. denied, 505 U.S. 1221 (1992) (retrial ordered).
By the time of the defendants’ retrial, Storella was available. He…
2Cases cited53 opinions
- Payton v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
- United States v. TerryCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1983
- Commonwealth v. BohannonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1978
- Commonwealth v. GreyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1987
- Commonwealth v. MayfieldMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1986
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3Cited by39 opinions
- Commonwealth v. SimpsonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2001
- Commonwealth v. LarkinMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1999
- DiBenedetto v. HallCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 2001
- Commonwealth v. RockMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1999
- Costa v. HallCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 2012
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