Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Deane
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided September 20, 2010PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtIreland, J.
In 2007, a Superior Court jury found the defend*44ant, Jessica Deane, guilty as a joint venturer1 of the murders in the first degree of Kayla Ravenell (Ravenell) and her twenty-seven month old son (child), on the theories of deliberate premeditation and extreme atrocity or cruelty. She appealed and now claims that the trial judge committed reversible error in denying her motion for required findings of not guilty, in admitting recordings of her telephone calls from jail, and in denying her request for a jury instruction distinguishing accessory after the fact from joint venture, as well as error…
2Cases cited35 opinions
- Commonwealth v. LatimoreMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1979
- Schmuck v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1989
- Commonwealth v. CunneenMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1983
- Commonwealth v. SellonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1980
- Commonwealth v. ZanettiMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2009
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3Cited by21 opinions
- Commonwealth v. BarbosaMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2017
- Commonwealth v. NorrisMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2012
- Commonwealth v. WilliamsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2016
- Commonwealth v. BuckmanMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2011
- Commonwealth v. AkaraMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2013
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