Legal Opinion

Commonwealth v. Brown

Massachusetts Appeals Court

Decided November 8, 2018No. 17-P-1222Published

1Opinion of the Court

A jury convicted the defendant of the lesser included offense of unarmed robbery on two indictments charging armed robbery while masked.2 On appeal the defendant argues that the evidence was insufficient to support her convictions and that the trial judge erred in failing to ask a juror an agreed-upon question during empanelment. We affirm.

Background. We summarize the evidence, and the reasonable inferences therefrom, in the light most favorable to the Commonwealth. See Commonwealth v. Latimore, 378 Mass. 671, 676-677 (1979). The defendant lived on the second floor of a three-family home in…

2Cases cited10 opinions

  1. Commonwealth v. LatimoreMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1979
  2. Commonwealth v. JonesMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1972
  3. Commonwealth v. BarnoskiMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1994
  4. Commonwealth v. MendezMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2017
  5. Commonwealth v. JacksonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2015

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