Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Jessup
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided April 8, 2015No. SJC 11376PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtHines, J.
In the early morning hours of May 30, 2010, Jonathan Santiago was shot and killed as he sat in his vehicle parked near a Springfield sports bar. The defendant was indicted for the shooting, and a jury convicted him of murder in the first degree on the theory of felony-murder (with attempted armed robbery as the underlying felony), unlawful possession of a firearm, and unlawful possession of a loaded firearm. 1 , 2 Represented by new counsel on appeal, he argues (1) error in the denial of his motion to suppress a letter he wrote to another detainee while he was detained awaiting trial; (2)…
2Cases cited23 opinions
- Turner v. SafleySupreme Court of the United States · 1987
- Procunier v. MartinezSupreme Court of the United States · 1974
- Pell v. ProcunierSupreme Court of the United States · 1974
- Thornburgh v. AbbottSupreme Court of the United States · 1989
- Van Lee Brewer, Van Lee Brewer and Claude Harris v. B. WilkinsonCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1993
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3Cited by24 opinions
- Commonwealth v. Jones-PannellMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2015
- Commonwealth v. DepieroMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2016
- Commonwealth v. CampbellMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2016
- Commonwealth v. NevesMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2016
- Commonwealth v. SilvaMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2015
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