Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Lao
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided June 13, 2011PublishedCited by 67 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtSpina, J.
The defendant appeals from his conviction of the deliberately premeditated murder of his estranged wife in May, 2000. He asserts error in (1) the admission of evidence of a conversation between the victim and their daughter that supplied motive for the murder; (2) the denial of his motion for a mistrial arising out of a witness’s unanticipated change in her testimony, and the disclosure of the defendant’s previous trial1 during the Commonwealth’s direct examination of the witness; (3) the prosecutor’s use during closing argument of an erroneous time-line chart, and calling for a conviction on…
2Cases cited27 opinions
- Commonwealth v. WrightMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1992
- Commonwealth v. KozecMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1987
- Commonwealth v. BowdenMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1980
- Commonwealth v. LaoMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2005
- Commonwealth v. BysMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1976
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3Cited by67 opinions
- Commonwealth v. ForteMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2014
- Commonwealth v. EntwistleMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2012
- Commonwealth v. GonzalezMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2016
- Commonwealth v. DurandMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2016
- Commonwealth v. AliceaMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2013
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