Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Mahdi
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided April 8, 1983PublishedCited by 182 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtLiacos, J.
On May 28, 1968, the defendant, Abdul J. Mahdi, 1 was found guilty by a jury of the crimes of murder in the first degree, assault with intent to murder by means of a dangerous weapon, and two counts of armed robbery. 2 He was sentenced to the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Walpole for life imprisonment on the murder conviction, for eighteen to twenty years on the assault conviction, and eighteen to twenty years on the armed robbery conviction. The latter two sentences were to take effect concurrently, but from and after the sentence on the murder conviction. 3 Mahdi contends that…
2Cases cited37 opinions
- Chapman v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- Gideon v. WainwrightSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Cuyler v. SullivanSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
- Doyle v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- Jenkins v. AndersonSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
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3Cited by182 opinions
- Wainwright v. GreenfieldSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
- Commonwealth v. KozecMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1987
- Scott Peckham v. Continental Casualty Insurance Co., Scott Peckham v. Continental Casualty Insurance Co.Court of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1990
- Hall v. WalterSupreme Court of Colorado · 1998
- Commonwealth v. DoucetteMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1984
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