Berry v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• evidence insufficient as matter of law to prove that defendant killed victim when both he and victim’s mother had equal opportunity to kill victim
• \Common law principles may provide greater protections than either the State or the Federal Constitution requires\
• “Common law principles may provide greater protections than either the State or the Federal Constitution requires”
• defendant whose trial ended in a mistrial entitled before retrial to appellate consideration of the sufficiency of the evidence
• insufficiency of evidence bars retrial following mistrial due to a “hung” jury
• insufficient evidence existed where defendant and victim’s mother had equal opportunity to kill victim

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).