Commonwealth v. Chipman

How courts have described this case

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

• direct evidence of who shot victim not required where there was strong circumstantial evidence that one or other of assailants was responsible
• deliberate premeditation where defendant carried out plan to shoot at vehicles on highway and killed child in school bus
• “To prove that a defendant committed murder with deliberate premeditation, the Commonwealth must prove that the defendant resolved to kill after a period of reflection”
• “Direct evidence of who shot the victim[] ‘is not required where, as here, there is strong circumstantial evidence that one of the [assailants] shot’ the victim[]”
• \The law recognizes that a plan to murder may be formed within a few seconds\
• sequence of thought process rather than amount of time is \key to determining whether someone acted with deliberate premeditation\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).