Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Valliere
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided July 25, 2002PublishedCited by 42 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtSpina, J.
A single justice of this court, acting pursuant to the gatekeeper provision in G. L. c. 278, § 33E, allowed the Commonwealth’s application for leave to appeal from an order of a Superior Court judge allowing the defendant’s third motion to correct illegal sentence filed in 1999. The judge who ruled on the defendant’s motion opined that, because the defendant’s armed robbery convictions merged with his convictions of murder in the first degree, as lesser included offenses, the armed robbery convictions and sentences should be vacated. We *367conclude that the defendant’s attack on his armed…
2Cases cited22 opinions
- Furman v. GeorgiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Morey v. CommonwealthMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1871
- Commonwealth v. JonesMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1981
- Commonwealth v. AmiraultMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1997
- Commonwealth v. St. PierreMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1979
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3Cited by42 opinions
- Commonwealth v. RandolphMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2002
- Commonwealth v. VickMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2009
- Commonwealth v. AndersonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2012
- Commonwealth v. JohnsonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2011
- Commonwealth v. HealyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2003
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