Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Boucher
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided January 3, 1989PublishedCited by 50 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtWilkins, J.
The defendant, convicted of murder in the first degree and represented by new counsel on appeal, correctly points to two substantial errors in the judge’s charge concerning manslaughter. The Commonwealth grants that the judge erred but argues that, because the jury found the defendant guilty of deliberately premeditated murder, those errors, not raised adequately before the trial judge, do not create a substantial likelihood that a miscarriage of justice has occurred (Commonwealth v. Stewart, 398 Mass. 535, 544 [1986]), thus calling for relief under G. L. c. 278, § 33E (1986 ed.). Although we…
2Cases cited12 opinions
- Commonwealth v. StokesMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1978
- Commonwealth v. DoucetteMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1984
- Commonwealth v. KendrickMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1966
- Commonwealth v. SoarisMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1931
- Commonwealth v. FitzgeraldMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1980
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3Cited by50 opinions
- Commonwealth v. RandolphMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2002
- Commonwealth v. CurtisMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1994
- Commonwealth v. AcevedoMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2006
- Lynch v. FiccoCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 2006
- Dagley v. RussoCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 2008
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