Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Sullivan
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided July 2, 1968PublishedCited by 45 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtWhittemore, J.
The defendants have appeals under G. L. c. 278, §§ 33A-33G, from judgments of guilty of murder in the first degree. The jury having recommended that the death sentence be not imposed, the defendants were sentenced to life imprisonment.
On October 14, 1966, about 7:15 a.m. two men committed a payroll robbery at the premises of the Railway Express Agency at the South Station in Boston. As the robbers fled one of them (identified at the trial as Sullivan) fired a shot which hit an employee of the Agency, Michael Shaw, in the head. Only one shot was fired. Shaw died from the wound on December 2,…
2Cases cited19 opinions
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- Stovall v. DennoSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- Witherspoon v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Massiah v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
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3Cited by45 opinions
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- Commonwealth v. VitelloMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1978
- State v. WilliamsSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1969
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