Commonwealth v. Ayer

How courts have described this case

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

• the defendant took sunglasses from a store without paying
• the defendant took sunglasses from a store without paying
• conclud- ing that the evidence was insufficient to prove that force was used “immediately after” the theft where 10 to 15 min- utes passed between the defendant’s theft and his struggle with police and “fresh pursuit did not link the theft * * * to the force ultimately used”
• conclud- ing that the evidence was insufficient to prove that force was used “immediately after” the theft where 10 to 15 min- utes passed between the defendant’s theft and his struggle with police and “fresh pursuit did not link the theft * * * to the force ultimately used”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).