Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. McCarthy
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided June 19, 1978PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtHennessey, C. J.
This is an appeal from an order of a single justice, which order dismissed a petition for extraordinary relief brought by the Commonwealth pursuant to G. L. c. 211, §§ 3, 4A. In this petition, the Commonwealth asserted that, in granting a motion for a new trial to one George E. McCarthy, a defendant who had been convicted of murder in the second degree, the trial judge based his decision not on a conclusion that there were errors at trial, but on the belief that the mandatory sentence of life imprisonment was inappropriate for this case. The Commonwealth thus argued that the judge either…
2Cases cited14 opinions
- Bartley v. PhillipsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1944
- Myers v. CommonwealthMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1973
- Blaisdell v. CommonwealthMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1977
- Commonwealth v. SlaneyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1962
- Commonwealth v. RembiszewskiMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1973
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3Cited by24 opinions
- Commonwealth v. GraceMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1986
- Commonwealth v. EllisonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1978
- Commonwealth v. WoodwardMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1998
- Commonwealth v. GauldenMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1981
- Fogarty v. CommonwealthMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1989
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