Commonwealth v. Colantonio

How courts have described this case

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

• malice inferred when defendant took a bat from a car, walked over to the victim, and forcefully swung it at him
• not ineffective assistance to decide against introduction of statement that while somewhat supportive was also damaging
• “[T]he charge as a whole conveyed to the jury that the burden remained with the Commonwealth throughout to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant did not [qualify for the G. L. c. 140, § 131(m) exception]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).