Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Farley
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided March 30, 2005PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtIreland, J.
The defendant, Diane Farley, was originally convicted of murder in the first degree on a theory of deliberate premeditation in 1994. We reversed that conviction in 2000, holding that her trial counsel was ineffective in failing to develop the defense of a third-party culprit “through evidence, cross-examination or in summation.” Commonwealth v. Farley, 432 Mass. 153, 156 (2000). The defendant was retried, and in 2002, a Superior Court jury again convicted her of murder in the first degree on a theory of deliberate premeditation. The trial judge sentenced her to life in prison.
On appeal, the…
2Cases cited33 opinions
- Davis v. AlaskaSupreme Court of the United States · 1974
- Chambers v. MississippiSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
- Douglas v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1965
- Kentucky v. StincerSupreme Court of the United States · 1987
- Commonwealth v. FancyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1965
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3Cited by23 opinions
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