Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Santos
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided September 15, 2009PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtCowin, J.
A jury in the Superior Court convicted the defendant of murder in the first degree on the theory of deliberate *771premeditation. The defendant, appealing from the conviction and from the denial of his motion for a new trial, asserts that the jury instructions on voluntary manslaughter were erroneous; that admission of testimony of the medical examiner (who was not the medical examiner who performed the autopsy on the victim) violated the defendant’s right of confrontation; and that it was error to deny his motion for a new trial, where, at a minimum, the motion judge1 should have authorized…
2Cases cited23 opinions
- Crawford v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 2004
- Commonwealth v. SaferianMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1974
- Commonwealth v. WrightMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1992
- Commonwealth v. HarringtonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1980
- Commonwealth v. MoffettMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1981
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3Cited by23 opinions
- Commonwealth v. BrittMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2013
- Commonwealth v. DyerMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2011
- Commonwealth v. BollingMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2012
- Commonwealth v. AnestalMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2012
- Commonwealth v. GrassieMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2017
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