Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Serino
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided March 28, 2002PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtMarshall, C.J.
Convicted of deliberately premeditated murder, John A. Serino appeals from that judgment and from the denial of his motion for a new trial. He challenges the sufficiency of the evidence; argues that the judge failed to conduct, sua sponte, a voir dire on the voluntariness of his out-of-court statements; claims that trial counsel was constitutionally ineffective for failing to obtain an independent psychiatric evaluation of the defendant’s competence to stand trial and his lack of criminal responsibility; and challenges various instructions to the jury. We affirm the conviction and the order…
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- Commonwealth v. SatterfieldMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1977
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