Commonwealth v. Claudio

How courts have described this case

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

• referring to penalty provision for armed burglary in G. L. c. 266, § 14, “imprisonment in the state prison for life or for any term of not less than ten years,” albeit without any detailed discussion, as “mandatory minimum sentence”
• armed burglary in dwelling with assault therein, under G. L. c. 266, § 14, is inherently dangerous felony and supported conviction for felony-murder
• defendant entitled to instruction that was supported by evidence even where it was “somewhat at odds with the defendant’s trial strategy”
• “unlawful entry during the night time into a dwelling . . . inevitably poses a high degree of danger to any and all occupants”
• “The felony-murder rule in Massachusetts ‘is defined by common law.’ ” (Citations omitted.)
• defendant's request for instruction, combined with prosecutor's postcharge claim of error in omitting such instruction, sufficed to preserve issue for defendant's appeal

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).