Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Carr
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided November 9, 1977PublishedCited by 61 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtKaplan, J.
This case reached the Appeals Court on report of the trial judge, and we transferred it here under G. L. c. 211A, § 10 (A). The defendant Thomas Carr was tried to a jury on an indictment charging him with distributing a class B controlled substance, cocaine, in violation of G. L. c. 94C, §§ 31-32, and he was found guilty of that offense. In the course of the trial, the defense offered three witnesses who were prepared to testify that one Nelson Wood, indicted for the same crime but not joined as a defendant, had made extrajudicial statements tending to incriminate himself and exonerate the…
2Cases cited40 opinions
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- Clyde Mattox v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1892
- Donnelly v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1913
- United States v. David Guillette and Robert JoostCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1976
- Commonwealth v. UnderwoodMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1970
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