Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Wheeler
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided September 25, 2001No. 99-P-1440PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtGrasso, J.
More than twenty-five years ago, after a jury-waived trial, Scott Wheeler,1 then fifteen years old, was adjudicated a delinquent child by reason of statutory rape (G. L. *632c. 265, § 23). In November, 1998, he moved for a new trial. The impetus for Wheeler’s motion was notification that he was being terminated from his position as a police officer in the town of Franklin, occasioned by a nonrenewal of his license to carry a handgun. The nonrenewal stemmed, in turn, from a recent amendment to G. L. c. 140, § 131.2 From the denial of this motion, he appeals. We affirm.
Termination of Wheeler’s…
2Cases cited31 opinions
- Commonwealth v. SaferianMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1974
- Commonwealth v. GraceMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1986
- Commonwealth v. AmiraultMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1997
- Commonwealth v. StewartMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1981
- Commonwealth v. CurtisMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1994
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3Cited by37 opinions
- Commonwealth v. HiskinMassachusetts Appeals Court · 2007
- Commonwealth v. BaranMassachusetts Appeals Court · 2009
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- Commonwealth v. VasquezMassachusetts Appeals Court · 2002
- Commonwealth v. FraireMassachusetts Appeals Court · 2002
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