Legal Opinion
Neverson v. Commonwealth
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided November 29, 1989PublishedCited by 43 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtGreaney, J.
Trevor Neverson (defendant) was tried before a jury in the Superior Court on an indictment charging him with the murder in the first degree of his fifteen month old stepdaughter. At the conclusion of the prosecution’s evidence, the trial judge granted the defendant’s motion for a required finding of not guilty as to so much of the indictment as charged murder in the first degree. The judge allowed the jury to consider whether the defendant should be convicted of murder in the second degree or manslaughter. The jury were unable to agree upon a verdict, and a mistrial was declared. When the…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Costarelli v. CommonwealthMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1978
- Commonwealth v. DockhamMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1989
- Berry v. CommonwealthMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1985
- Fadden v. CommonwealthMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1978
- Commonwealth v. MarchiondaMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1982
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3Cited by43 opinions
- Jackson v. CoalterCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 2003
- Neverson v. BissonnetteCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 2001
- Jackson v. CommonwealthMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2002
- Commonwealth v. KesslerMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2004
- Brown v. CommonwealthMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1990
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