Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Pikul
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided August 6, 1987PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtLynch, J.
After a jury trial in the Superior Court, the defendant, Mark Pikul, was convicted of murder in the first degree and rape of a child, without force. He was sentenced to life imprisonment at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Walpole (now Cedar Junction), on the murder conviction and a term of ten to fifteen years on the rape conviction, to be served concurrently with the life sentence.
The defendant testified that, after he and the victim (the defendant’s three and one-half year old stepdaughter) returned home from a local coffee shop on the morning of October 29, 1982, the victim…
2Cases cited15 opinions
- Commonwealth v. TavaresMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1982
- Simon v. SolomonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1982
- Commonwealth v. RussMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1919
- Commonwealth v. ToneyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1982
- Commonwealth v. a JuvenileMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1974
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3Cited by29 opinions
- Commonwealth v. FreibergMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1989
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- Commonwealth v. WoodsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1995
- Commonwealth v. MerolaMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1989
- Commonwealth v. JohnsonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1992
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