Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Philbrook
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided July 28, 2016No. SJC 11615PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtDuffly, J.
The defendant was convicted of murder in the first degree on a theory of deliberate premeditation in the shooting death of his former wife, Dorothy Philbrook. 2 The defendant and his former wife were divorced in 1975, but had been living together for many years when, on August 17, 2007, the defendant shot her five times on the street in front of their house in Everett, in view of some of their neighbors. The defendant does not dispute that he was the shooter. His defense at trial was that he was not criminally responsible because the prescription medications that he was taking exacerbated an…
2Cases cited29 opinions
- Tanner v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1987
- Commonwealth v. HelfantMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1986
- Commonwealth v. BradshawMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1982
- Commonwealth v. McHoulMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1967
- Commonwealth v. SimpsonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2001
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3Cited by13 opinions
- Commonwealth v. RutherfordMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2017
- Commonwealth v. ColonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2019
- Commonwealth v. ColtonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2017
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