Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Thurber
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided April 8, 1981PublishedCited by 34 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBraucher, J.
Late in 1977 the defendant was convicted of escape from the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Concord. G. L. c. 268, § 16. A single justice of this court allowed a motion for the late filing of an appeal, and the defendant appealed to the Appeals Court. We transferred the case to this court on our own motion to consider novel questions with respect to the doctrine of necessity. We affirm the conviction.
The Commonwealth presented evidence that on June 24, 1977, the defendant was in lawful custody at Concord, serving a life sentence for murder in the second degree, that he left the…
2Cases cited14 opinions
- Doyle v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- United States v. BaileySupreme Court of the United States · 1980
- Commonwealth v. SaferianMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1974
- People v. LovercampCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1974
- Commonwealth v. WaldenMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1980
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3Cited by34 opinions
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