Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Peixoto
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided January 25, 2000PublishedCited by 46 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtGreaney, J.
A jury in the Superior Court convicted the defendant of murder in the first degree of the three year old son of his girl friend on a theory of extreme atrocity or cruelty. The defendant’s new counsel on appeal argues that the defendant should be retried because (1) the prosecutor improperly brought to the jury’s attention his post-Miranda statement expressing his reluctance to talk to the police without an attorney; and (2) the judge should not have excluded evidence of conduct of the victim’s sister, suggesting, in the defendant’s view, that the mother may have committed the murder. As to…
2Cases cited23 opinions
- Miranda v. ArizonaSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
- Chapman v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- Doyle v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- Jenkins v. AndersonSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
- Commonwealth v. BradshawMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1982
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3Cited by46 opinions
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