Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Alisha A.
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided October 28, 2002No. 00-P-1814PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJacobs, J.
A Juvenile Court jury returned verdicts of *312delinquency on charges that the juvenile distributed a Class C controlled substance, G. L. c. 94C, § 32B, and did so within 1,000 feet of a school, G. L. c. 94C, § 32J. In this appeal, the juvenile claims that the evidence was insufficient to show a controlled substance was involved and that the prosecutor’s closing argument was improper.
The evidence at trial, viewed in accordance with Commonwealth v. Latimore, 378 Mass. 671, 676-677 (1979), is as follows. In the evening of March 8, 2000, the juvenile, a student at a private alternative school in…
2Cases cited14 opinions
- Commonwealth v. LatimoreMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1979
- Commonwealth v. KozecMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1987
- United States v. Wilson Tony Harrell, James Hawkins, Anthony Scire, Karl Heinz HarigCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1984
- Commonwealth v. ChavisMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1993
- Commonwealth v. RiveraMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1997
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3Cited by8 opinions
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