Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. St. Pierre
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided March 30, 1979PublishedCited by 141 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtKaplan, J.
The defendants St. Pierre and Kines, inmates held in block 10 (the segregation unit) of the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Walpole, after joint trial to a Norfolk County jury were convicted of the crimes of mayhem and assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon, committed by them while incarcerated. Each was sentenced to concurrent three-to-ten year terms to be served at Walpole after sentences previously imposed. On their present appeals pursuant to G. L. c. 278, §§ 33A-33G, the defendants press three principal alleged errors: failure to dismiss the indictments as having…
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