Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Schulze
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided July 22, 1983PublishedCited by 59 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtWilkins, J.
In this appeal, which is here on the defendant’s application for further appellate review (Commonwealth v. Schulze, 14 Mass. App. Ct. 343 [1982]), we conclude that relevant evidence concerning the defendant’s lack of criminal responsibility was improperly excluded and that the defendant may have been significantly prejudiced thereby. We therefore reverse his convictions and order a new trial.
The defendant was convicted of crimes committed in the course of an attempted armed robbery of a Somerville phar macy in September, 1979. The pharmacist activated a silent alarm, and the police surrounded…
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