Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Jones
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided February 4, 1980PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtGreaney, J.
On July 16, 1977, at approximately 5:30 a.m. the defendant, an off duty Mansfield police officer, while driving his car on the mid-Cape highway in Barn-stable, travelled in the wrong direction in the eastbound lane and collided head-on with an approaching van. As a result of the collision, two people in the van were instantly killed and a third died on July 31, 1977. Subsequent indictments charged the defendant with three counts of involuntary manslaughter (G. L. c. 265, § 13), three counts of vehicular homicide (G. L. c. 90, § 24G), and operating to endanger (G. L. c. 90, § 24[2][a]). Prior…
2Cases cited66 opinions
- Brown v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
- Green v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1961
- Commonwealth v. BowdenMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1980
- Commonwealth v. SlavskiMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1923
- Commonwealth v. BorodineMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1976
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3Cited by37 opinions
- Commonwealth v. JonesMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1981
- Commonwealth v. ShelleyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1980
- Commonwealth v. ShelineMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1984
- Commonwealth v. GabbidonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1986
- Commonwealth v. BabbMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1983
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