Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1/28/1970

Commonwealth v. Connolly

Citations

255 N.E.2d 191
356 Mass. 617
1970 Mass. LEXIS 899

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“Since the basement was a common area freely available to all the tenants, one tenant could give permission to its search”
consent by a tenant to a search of a common basement area
not error for the trial judge to allow the prosecutor to read from the record of conviction the crime that the defendant had first been charged with, even though he ultimately was not convicted of that crime
“in the final analysis, the issue must be left largely to the deliberation of the jury . . . [to] determine when the mode of inflicting death is so shocking as to amount to extreme atrocity or cruelty”
identification by victim in hospital

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Judges: Wilkins, Spalding, Cutter, Kirk, Spiegel, Reardon

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