Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Phinney
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided November 10, 1993PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtGreaney, J.
On October 5, 1990, a jury in the Superior Court returned a special verdict finding the defendant, Roland Douglas Phinney, Jr., guilty of murder in the first degree both by reason of deliberate premeditation and extreme atrocity or cruelty. The jury’s verdict resolved the murder, on February 8, 1980, ten years previously, of the defendant’s next door neighbor, a young unmarried woman. At the time of the crime in 1980, the police had considered the defendant as a suspect, but he had not been arrested or charged. The murder investigation remained open until July 26, 1989, when the defendant…
2Cases cited22 opinions
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- Moran v. BurbineSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
- Commonwealth v. LatimoreMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1979
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- Commonwealth v. SoaresMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1979
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3Cited by17 opinions
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