Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Jewett
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided July 23, 1984PublishedCited by 53 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtLynch, J.
The defendant was convicted of rape and was sentenced to a term of thirty-five to fifty years at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Walpole. He filed a timely appeal from this conviction. The defendant also filed a motion for a new trial, which the trial judge denied. A notice of appeal from this denial was filed, and this was consolidated with the appeal from the defendant’s conviction.
After a decision by the Appeals Court reversing the judgment of the Superior Court, Commonwealth v. Jewett, 17 Mass. App. Ct. 354 (1984), we granted the Commonwealth’s application for further…
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- Commonwealth v. FranklinMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1974
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