Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Lewis
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided August 29, 1980PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtKaplan, J.
The indictments for the homicides in the present cases would fail if a “year and a day” rule were applied, since in each of the cases the victim died more than that period of time after the criminal act. More particularly: In Commonwealth vs. Randolph Lewis (and three companion cases), the defendants were indicted on September 8, 1978, for the murder of Richard Poleet, death having occurred on May 30, 1978, as a result, so the Commonwealth claimed, of the defendants’ assault upon him on April 19, 1976. (Two of the defendants had been found guilty on May 4, 1977, of other crimes arising from…
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