Massachusetts Appeals Court· 10/19/2000
Commonwealth v. Brown
Citations
- 50 Mass. App. Ct. 253
- 737 N.E.2d 1
- 2000 Mass. App. LEXIS 845
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- probability that one of three defendants fired handgun insufficient to implicate any specific defendant or convict others of joint and constructive possession
- no direct evidence of possession, “such as by observation, fingerprints, or paraffin tests”
- no direct evidence of firearm possession, “such as by observation, fingerprints, or paraffin tests”
- insufficient evidence to establish that defendants were in possession of firearm found under couch they were sitting on where gun was not in plain view but hidden, and there was no indication gun had been recently fired and no suspicious movements
- \direct evidence\ of actual possession includes eyewitness observation
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Judges: Jacobs
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- Commonwealth v. CharltonMassachusetts Appeals Court· 2012-02-16· cited 4×
- Commonwealth v. ThomasMassachusetts Appeals Court· 2001-08-16· cited 2×
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Cites
13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.
- Commonwealth v. LatimoreMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1979-08-07· cited 1,893×
- Commonwealth v. FancyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1965-05-04· cited 202×
- Commonwealth v. BrzezinskiMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1989-07-13· cited 153×
- Commonwealth v. JamesMassachusetts Appeals Court· 1991-04-26· cited 58×
- Commonwealth v. BeverlyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1983-08-12· cited 50×
- Commonwealth v. DeagleMassachusetts Appeals Court· 1980-09-29· cited 49×
- Commonwealth v. BrownMassachusetts Appeals Court· 1993-03-18· cited 31×
- Commonwealth v. SadberryMassachusetts Appeals Court· 1998-04-06· cited 23×
- Commonwealth v. SanchezMassachusetts Appeals Court· 1996-05-08· cited 21×
- Commonwealth v. CarmenattyMassachusetts Appeals Court· 1994-08-15· cited 15×
- Commonwealth v. RobinsonMassachusetts Appeals Court· 1997-07-30· cited 15×
- Commonwealth v. FernandezMassachusetts Appeals Court· 2000-02-08· cited 13×
- Commonwealth v. PichardoMassachusetts Appeals Court· 1995-04-13· cited 7×
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