Commonwealth v. Brennan

How courts have described this case

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

• circumstantial evidence sufficient to identify defendant as perpetrator where defendant had similar clothing as burglar, was apprehended nearby, and had necessary knowledge to conduct burglary
• defendant identified as burglar based on circumstantial evidence including that defendant was in area at time crime occurred and had keys to burglary site
• proof of identity must be beyond a reasonable doubt

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

3 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Quinones
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2019-04-10· cited 27×
• Commonwealth v. Blackmer
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2010-08-26· cited 18×
• Commonwealth v. Francois
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2018-07-02

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Latimore
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1979-08-07· cited 1,893×
• Commonwealth v. Beckett
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1977-09-14· cited 151×
• Commonwealth v. Zagranski
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1990-08-13· cited 74×
• Commonwealth v. Anderson
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1985-12-09· cited 72×
• Commonwealth v. Doucette
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1990-09-25· cited 56×
• Commonwealth v. Bush
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1998-03-04· cited 31×