Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. LaPierre
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided October 23, 1980PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtGoodman, J.
The defendant appeals from convictions on three indictments charging, respectively, rape and kidnapping of a thirteen-year old girl and kidnapping of her nine-year old brother. The defendant was sentenced to life imprisonment on the rape charge and nine to ten years on each of the kidnapping charges. The sentences for kidnapping were to be served concurrently with each other but from and after the sentence for rape.
The crimes1 occurred on March 13, 1979, at about 5:30 p.m. in Bolton. It was still daylight. While the children were walking home from the nearby house of a friend, a Toyota passed…
2Cases cited20 opinions
- Simmons v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Foster v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
- Commonwealth v. RodriguezMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1979
- Commonwealth v. BotelhoMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1976
- Commonwealth v. WaldenMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1980
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3Cited by15 opinions
- Commonwealth v. PaszkoMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1984
- State v. BoucinoSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1986
- Commonwealth v. PhillipsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2008
- State v. DoolittleSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1983
- Commonwealth v. HicksMassachusetts Appeals Court · 1984
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