Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Ferreira
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided October 21, 2011PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtGants, J.
The defendant was convicted by a jury in the Superior Court of unarmed robbery of a person sixty years of age or older, in violation of G. L. c. 265, § 19 (a), and was sentenced to life in prison after the trial judge found him guilty of being a habitual offender, in violation of G. L. c. 279, § 25. The Appeals Court affirmed the conviction, Commonwealth v. Ferreira, 77 Mass. App. Ct. 675, 682 (2010), and we granted the defendant’s application for further appellate review. The issue presented on appeal is whether the prosecutor’s mathematical analysis in his closing argument of the…
2Cases cited15 opinions
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- People v. CollinsCalifornia Supreme Court · 1968
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