Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Lashway
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided June 20, 1994No. 93-P-1003PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtKaplan, J.
The Hampden County grand jury on August 21, 1991, indicted Ralph Lashway 2 and Clinton Millette for unarmed robbery (G. L. c. 265, § 19[6]), and the case was tried to a jury in March, 1992. From judgments of conviction upon guilty verdicts the defendants appeal.
The victim, Walter Johnson, a bystander, Richard Carle, and a police officer testified for the Commonwealth. The defendants cross-examined but did not offer proof on their own behalf.
A jury could have seen the episode as follows. On the way home on the evening of April 7, 1991, Johnson picked up a soda in the Peter Pan bus terminal,…
2Cases cited20 opinions
- Commonwealth v. SoaresMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1979
- Commonwealth v. RichardsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1973
- Commonwealth v. JonesMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1972
- Foley v. Lowell Sun Publishing Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1989
- Commonwealth v. HomerMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1920
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3Cited by18 opinions
- State v. OwensTennessee Supreme Court · 2000
- United States v. Perez-GarciaCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1995
- Commonwealth v. GoldsteinMassachusetts Appeals Court · 2002
- Commonwealth v. AhartMassachusetts Appeals Court · 1994
- Commonwealth v. ZangariMassachusetts Appeals Court · 1997
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