Legal Opinion
Morrissette v. Commonwealth
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided March 21, 1980PublishedCited by 40 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtHennessey, C.J.
This is an appeal from a judgment of a single justice dismissing a petition for extraordinary relief brought by the petitioner (hereinafter called the defendant) pursuant to G. L. c. 211, § 3. In this pretrial petition, the defendant challenges the sufficiency of the evidence pre sented to the grand jury, which indicted him for having wilfully and maliciously burned a building in violation of G. L. c. 266, § 2. He further asserts that the prosecutor’s countenancing of testimony indicating that probable cause had been found in the District Court impaired the grand jury’s integrity. We conclude…
2Cases cited17 opinions
- Hurtado v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1884
- Attorney General v. PelletierMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1922
- Commonwealth v. St. PierreMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1979
- Myers v. CommonwealthMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1973
- Costarelli v. CommonwealthMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1978
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3Cited by40 opinions
- Commonwealth v. GauldenMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1981
- Fogarty v. CommonwealthMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1989
- Commonwealth v. DiBenedettoMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1998
- Ventresco v. CommonwealthMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1991
- Dunbrack v. CommonwealthMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1986
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