Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Scott
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided September 24, 2015No. SJC 11097PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtDuffly, J.
The only issue that is properly before us in this interlocutory appeal, as we shall explain below, is whether the evidence at the defendant’s trial was sufficient to warrant a finding of guilty of murder in the first degree based on a theory of felony-murder, with armed home invasion as the predicate felony. Specifically, the question is whether the Commonwealth presented evidence that would warrant a finding that the defendant committed two separate assaults, one to support a conviction of armed home invasion and a separate and distinct assault that constituted the homicide. In the absence…
2Cases cited21 opinions
- Jackson v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Commonwealth v. LatimoreMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1979
- Commonwealth v. RaymondMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1997
- Commonwealth v. GunterMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1998
- Costarelli v. CommonwealthMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1978
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3Cited by7 opinions
- Commonwealth v. LawsonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2016
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- Commonwealth v. FredetteMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2018
- Commonwealth v. PaquetteMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2016
- Commonwealth v. GriffinMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2016
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