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Commonwealth v. Hammond

Citations

  • 50 Mass. App. Ct. 171
  • 736 N.E.2d 398
  • 2000 Mass. App. LEXIS 836

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  • judge correctly instructed that term “injures a person” for purposes of crime of malicious explosion, G. L. c. 266, § 101, includes “significant emotional injury”
  • while “the primary meaning of ‘injure’ [is] to do injustice or wrong to a person,” its definition is broad enough to include both physical injury as well as “harm to the mind that a person of normal sensibility would experience when made the victim of [certain crimes]”

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Judges: Kass

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