Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Breese
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided June 26, 1980PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBraucher, J.
The defendant appeals from his conviction of murder in the first degree. See G. L. c. 278, §§ 33A-33G; St. 1979, c. 346; Mass.R.A.P. IB, inserted by 378 Mass. 924 (effective July 1, 1979). Early in the morning of Wednesday, May 31, 1978, the body of the victim, a prostitute working in the “ Combat Zone” in Boston, was found in an apartment used by several prostitutes as a “trick pad” for entertaining “dates.” Among other things the defendant claims that the prosecutor in her opening described the testimony of a witness who later failed to appear, and that her statement was “irretrievably and…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- United States v. AgursSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- Commonwealth v. RodriguezMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1979
- Commonwealth v. FitzgeraldMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1978
- Commonwealth v. DouganMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1979
- Commonwealth v. FazioMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1978
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3Cited by25 opinions
- Commonwealth v. CunneenMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1983
- Commonwealth v. MoffettMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1981
- Commonwealth v. CohenMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1992
- Commonwealth v. PressleyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1983
- Commonwealth v. ErringtonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1984
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