Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Marrero
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided March 12, 1998PublishedCited by 53 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtAbrams, J.
The defendant, Elvio J. Marrero, appeals from his conviction of murder in the first degree by reason of deliberate premeditation and extreme atrocity or cruelty. The defendant claims that the trial judge erred in admitting evidence of the defendant’s prior bad acts of violence and drug dealing. The defendant also claims that the judge’s instructions to the jury were flawed because the instructions did not properly limit the use the jury could make of the bad acts evidence and did not instruct the jurors that any inferences they drew had to be established beyond a reasonable doubt. For the…
2Cases cited24 opinions
- Commonwealth v. BradshawMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1982
- Commonwealth v. HofferMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1978
- Commonwealth v. ChalifouxMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1973
- Commonwealth v. SalemmeMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1985
- Commonwealth v. SinnottMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1987
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3Cited by53 opinions
- Commonwealth v. AlphasMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1999
- Commonwealth v. SimpsonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2001
- Commonwealth v. GarreyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2002
- Commonwealth v. MaldonadoMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1999
- Commonwealth v. AllisonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2001
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