Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Conkey
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided July 30, 1999PublishedCited by 34 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtWilkins, C.J.
The defendant was convicted of murder in the first degree on all three possible bases, deliberate premeditation, extreme atrocity or cruelty, and felony-murder. The jury also found him guilty of armed burglary, armed assault in a dwelling, and armed robbery. We reverse his convictions.
During the night of December 3-4, 1994, Mary Lou Sale was killed in her home on Massachusetts Avenue in Lexington. The defendant lived four houses away on the same side of the street. When the victim failed to appear at work on December 5 and 6, fellow workers called the Lexington police. The police found Sale’s…
2Cases cited39 opinions
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- South Dakota v. NevilleSupreme Court of the United States · 1983
- Commonwealth v. HaasMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1977
- Commonwealth v. ToneyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1982
- Commonwealth v. BorodineMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1976
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3Cited by34 opinions
- Commonwealth v. GaynorMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2005
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- Commonwealth v. MaynardMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2002
- Commonwealth v. KirwanMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2007
- Commonwealth v. O'LaughlinMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2006
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