Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Gordon
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided July 1, 1991Published
1Opinion of the Court
410 Mass. 498 (1991)
574 N.E.2d 974
COMMONWEALTH
vs.
VENTRY GORDON.
Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.
March 7, 1991.
July 1, 1991.
Present: LIACOS, C.J., WILKINS, ABRAMS, NOLAN, LYNCH, O'CONNOR, & GREANEY, JJ.
Thomas F. Reilly, District Attorney (Patricia M. Darrigo, Assistant District Attorney, with him) for the Commonwealth.
Willie J. Davis for the defendant.
ABRAMS, J.
At issue is the power and authority of a trial judge to accept, over the Commonwealth's objection, a plea to murder in the second degree from a defendant indicted for murder in the first degree. In this case, the plea…
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