Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Grace
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided April 15, 1986PublishedCited by 320 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtWilkins, J.
The Commonwealth appeals from an order of a judge of the Superior Court allowing the defendant’s motion for a new trial on an indictment charging him with murder in the first degree. We affirmed the defendant’s conviction in Commonwealth v. Grace, 370 Mass. 746 (1976). The ground of the defendant’s motion considered at the hearing on his new trial motion followed from his brother Ross Grace’s recantation of testimony he gave at their joint trial. Ross Grace has now abandoned his claim of alibi, admits that he shot the victim, and asserts that the defendant was not present. Two witnesses (Cruz…
2Cases cited16 opinions
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- Commonwealth v. DascalakisMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1923
- Commonwealth v. De ChristoforoMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1971
- Commonwealth v. EllisonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1978
- Commonwealth v. BrownMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1979
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3Cited by320 opinions
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