Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Rodriquez
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided August 6, 1973PublishedCited by 176 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtKaplan, J.
The defendants Hector Santiago Rodriquez (Hector) and Rogelio Felix Rodriquez, Jr. (Felix), indicted for the murder in the first degree of William Alonzo Johnson, and jointly tried, were severally found guilty of that crime, but with recommendation that the penalty of death be not imposed. From the judgments of conviction, the defendants appeal under G. L. c. 278, §§ 33A-33G. Their argued assigned errors range from the composition of the jury, through the admission of various pieces of evidence, to the giving of the charge set out in Commonwealth v. Tuey, 8 Cush. 1, 2-3, when it appeared that…
2Cases cited47 opinions
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- Frazier v. CuppSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
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3Cited by176 opinions
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