Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1/15/1991

Commonwealth v. Blake

Citations

564 N.E.2d 1006
409 Mass. 146
1991 Mass. LEXIS 39

How courts have described this case

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defining specific intent in terms of “focused . . . purpose”
“Defense counsel was not obliged to pursue all theoretical defenses, no matter how little basis in the evidence existed for them”
“counsel was not obliged to pursue all theoretical defenses, no matter how little basis in the evidence existed for them”
no entitlement to instruction concerning effects of intoxication on third prong of malice, where no showing that intoxication had any relevant effect on knowledge of circumstances of killing
defendant not entitled to instruction on effects of intoxication on third prong of malice where no showing that intoxication had any relevant effect on knowledge of circumstances of killing

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Judges: Liacos, Wilkins, Abrams, Lynch, Greaney

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