Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Meas
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided March 12, 2014PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtIreland, C.J.
On December 16, 2008, a jury convicted the defendant, Jerry Meas, of murder in the first degree on a theory of deliberate premeditation and of unlawful possession of a firearm.1 Represented by new counsel on appeal, the defendant argues error in (1) the form of the murder indictment; (2) the denial of his motion to suppress identification evidence; (3) the admission at trial of surveillance videotape recordings; (4) the judge’s limitation on cross-examination of a witness on the issue of bias; (5) the judge’s decision not to discharge a juror; and (6) the judge’s instructions to the jury. We…
2Cases cited47 opinions
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- Blakely v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 2004
- Stovall v. DennoSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- Davis v. AlaskaSupreme Court of the United States · 1974
- Commonwealth v. FlebotteMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1994
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