Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Burke
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided November 2, 1977PublishedCited by 86 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtAbrams, J.
John L. Burke (defendant) was convicted,
after a jury trial, on an indictment charging armed robbery. He appeals that conviction pursuant to G. L. c. 278, §§ 33A-33H, and claims as reversible error (1) the denial of his motions for mistrial, particularly the motion which was made during the Commonwealth’s summation, and (2) the denial of his motion to dismiss for lack of speedy trial as guaranteed by the Agreement on Detainers (the agreement). St. 1965, c. 892, § 1. Though we find the defendant’s speedy trial claim to be meritless, we conclude that the prosecutor’s closing argument, viewed in…
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