Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Beldotti
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided March 14, 1991PublishedCited by 58 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtWilkins, J.
Shortly after 2 p.m. on a hot August day in 1988, the defendant called the Needham police station to report that a woman’s body was on the bathroom floor of his home, and he thought that she had been murdered. Within two minutes, a police officer arrived. The defendant told the officer where the body was. The officer found the nude, mutilated body of the victim on the floor of the upstairs bathroom. The defendant had operated a business out of his home, where he lived with his parents, and had maintained an office on the second floor of the house. The victim, who had come to work that…
2Cases cited16 opinions
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- Commonwealth v. McCarthyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1982
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3Cited by58 opinions
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