Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Harris
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided January 16, 1981PublishedCited by 42 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtGreaney, J.
On August 15, 1975, a Superior Court jury convicted the defendant on indictments charging three counts of rape of a child (G. L. c. 265, § 23), and he was sentenced to concurrent terms at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Walpole. No appeal was taken from the judgments of conviction. On August 10, 1977, the defendant filed a petition for writ of error in the Supreme Judicial Court alleging that he had been denied the effective assistance of counsel. That court referred the matter to a special master, and on March 16, 1979, adopted the master’s recommendation that the defendant’s…
2Cases cited78 opinions
- Wong Sun v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Coolidge v. New HampshireSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- North Carolina v. ButlerSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- United States v. CrewsSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
- Commonwealth v. SaferianMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1974
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3Cited by42 opinions
- Commonwealth v. SanchezMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1989
- Commonwealth v. OwensMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1993
- Commonwealth v. GullickMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1982
- Commonwealth v. GriseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1986
- State v. SchinzingSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1983
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