Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Holliday
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided March 14, 2008PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtCordy, J.
In the early morning hours of March 31, 1991, gang members Craig Holliday and Jeffrey Mooltrey went to an after-hours party in the Roxbury section of Boston. At the party, Nathaniel Rivers, the leader of a rival gang, and a bystander, Mia Sanders, were shot to death. On October 3, 1996, Mooltrey and Holliday were indicted. On May 22, 1998, a jury convicted them each on two indictments charging murder in the first degree, on theories of deliberate premeditation and felony-murder; two indictments charging armed home invasion; and one indictment charging each with possession of a firearm.2
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2Cases cited50 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Kirby v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Nix v. WhitesideSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
- Patterson v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1988
- Smith v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
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3Cited by24 opinions
- Commonwealth v. BarbosaMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2010
- Commonwealth v. McGeeMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2014
- Commonwealth v. JenkinsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2011
- Commonwealth v. EppsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2016
- Commonwealth v. LallyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2016
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