Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Cook
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided December 20, 1994PublishedCited by 66 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtLiacos, C.J.
The defendant appeals from his convictions on two indictments charging felony-murder in the first degrec and one indictment charging unarmed robbery. He claims a variety of errors. We address only the claims of error adequately briefed, namely, that: (1) the arresting officers lacked probable cause to arrest and, hence, certain evidence obtained incident to the arrest should have been suppressed; (2) the trial judge provided inadequate jury instructions; (3) the prosecutor committed prejudicial error in his closing argument; (4) the Commonwealth submitted insufficient evidence to support a…
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