Legal Opinion
Pisa v. Commonwealth
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided August 9, 1979PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBraucher, J.
In Commonwealth v. Pisa, 372 Mass. 590 (1977), we ordered that the defendant’s conviction of murder in the first degree be reduced to a verdict of guilty of murder in the second degree. That decision was without prejudice to any remedy for an alleged conflict of interest on the part of one of the prosecuting lawyers. Id. at 598 n.6. The defendant then sought relief by writ of error, and a single justice of this court confirmed a master’s report recommending that the judgment, as previously reduced by this court, be affirmed. The defendant appeals, and we affirm the denial of relief.
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