Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Saferian
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided July 30, 1974PublishedCited by 1,015 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtKaplan, J.
On February 6, 1967, the defendant was found guilty by a jury, after trial made subject to G. L. c. 278, §§ 33A-33G, of the crimes of armed robbery, larceny of a motor vehicle, and unlawfully carrying a revolver under his control in a motor vehicle. He was sentenced to the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Walpole for ten to twelve years on the robbery conviction, and for four to five years on each of the other convictions, the three terms to run concurrently. The procedural oddities that occurred thereafter are summarized in the margin. It will be enough to say that the only claim…
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