Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Anderson
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided March 9, 2012PublishedCited by 72 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtGants, J.
On the afternoon of June 19, 2008, two men, each wearing a bandana around his face, entered a family-owned market in the Dorchester section of Boston. One man placed a revolver on the counter, with a round in the chamber directly behind the barrel, and demanded that the store clerk hand over “the money from the cash register and the lottery.” The store clerk gave them the money, change from his pocket, and six packs of cigarettes, and the two men fled from the store.
On October 19, 2009, a jury in the Superior Court concluded that Eric Anderson was one of the two men who had robbed the clerk,…
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