Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Valliere
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided December 11, 1974PublishedCited by 75 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBraucher, J.
The defendant appeals under G. L. c. 278, §§ 33A-33G, from convictions of the murder of two employees of a bank in Chicopee and of armed robbery, while masked and disguised, of the same two employees. The events in controversy took place on January 11, 1971. Pre-trial hearings were held on eleven days in March and April, 1972, and the jury trial took thirty-one days in May and June, 1972. More than 6,000 pages of transcript are before us, disclosing more than 200 exceptions taken by the defendant. He has filed thirty assignments of error, and argues most of them under twenty-one separate…
2Cases cited46 opinions
- Miranda v. ArizonaSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
- Furman v. GeorgiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Witherspoon v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Orozco v. TexasSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
- Boulden v. HolmanSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
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3Cited by75 opinions
- Commonwealth v. BowdenMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1980
- Commonwealth v. BorodineMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1976
- Commonwealth v. EarltopMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1977
- Commonwealth v. WilliamsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1979
- Commonwealth v. SmithMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1983
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