Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Morganti
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided November 25, 2009PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtGants, J.
On June 13, 2003, a jury convicted the defendant of murder in the first degree, based on both deliberate premeditation and extreme atrocity or cmelty. Represented by new counsel on appeal, the defendant argues that the trial judge erred in (1) admitting in evidence statements, some of which were electronically recorded, made by the defendant more than six hours after his arrest in California on unrelated charges and after he had purportedly invoked his constitutional right to silence; (2) permitting the defendant to be excluded from a jury view; (3) preventing a witness from consulting with…
2Cases cited27 opinions
- Edwards v. ArizonaSupreme Court of the United States · 1981
- Davis v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1994
- Gerald Griggs-Ryan v. Beulah Smith, Gerald Griggs-Ryan v. Richard ConnellyCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1990
- Commonwealth v. ScottMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2004
- Commonwealth v. CunneenMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1983
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3Cited by30 opinions
- Commonwealth v. TranMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2011
- Commonwealth v. HoytMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2011
- Commonwealth v. HooseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2014
- Commonwealth v. MorgantiMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2014
- Commonwealth v. WilliamsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2016
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