Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Tavares
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided May 14, 2015No. SJC 11508PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBotsford, J.
In October, 2011, a jury in the Superior Court convicted the defendant of murder in the first degree based on deliberate premeditation in connection with the fatal shooting of Manuel Monteiro and Jovany Eason. The defendant did not fire the gun that killed the victims, but was convicted on a theory of joint venture with the shooter, who took the gun from the defendant’s hand and began shooting.
On appeal, the defendant argues that there was insufficient evidence to convict him of murder in the first degree based on a joint venture theory, that the judge erred in not instructing the jury on…
2Cases cited46 opinions
- Commonwealth v. LatimoreMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1979
- Commonwealth v. ZanettiMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2009
- Commonwealth v. SiresMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1992
- Commonwealth v. SantiagoMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1997
- Commonwealth v. WilliamsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1996
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3Cited by32 opinions
- Commonwealth v. GonzalezMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2016
- Commonwealth v. BarbosaMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2017
- Commonwealth v. WardsworthMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2019
- Commonwealth v. CarterMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2016
- Commonwealth v. PinaMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2019
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