Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Robbins
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided March 19, 1996PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtFried, J.
The defendant, David M. Robbins, was convicted of murder in the first degree and armed burglary in the nighttime. While his appeal was pending, he filed a motion and an amended motion for a new trial in this court. These motions were denied by a single justice of this court to whom they were referred. We consider the matter of those motions together with this appeal and affirm the denial of those motions as well as the defendant’s conviction of first degree murder by reason of deliberate premeditation. We reverse the defendant’s conviction of armed burglary.
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Robbins entered his estranged…
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