Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1/30/1981

Commonwealth v. Jones

Citations

416 N.E.2d 502
382 Mass. 387
1981 Mass. LEXIS 1081

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noting that Commonwealth may have to choose between charges where “necessary to protect the substantial rights of the defendant”
vacating judgments of conviction of less serious offenses of motor vehicle homicide and operating to endanger
discussing the harms inflicted by multiple convictions even in the absence of cumulative sentences
declining to hold that vehicular homicide is a lesser-ineluded offense of manslaughter
“finding of ordinary negligence suffices to establish a violation of the statute”
A defendant cannot be convicted of both manslaughter and homicide by motor vehicle. The two offenses are sufficiently closely related so as to preclude punishment on both.

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Judges: Hennessey, Quirico, Braucher, Kaplan, Wilkins, Liacos, Abrams

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