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Commonwealth v. Mitchell

Citations

  • 67 Mass. App. Ct. 556
  • 855 N.E.2d 406
  • 2006 Mass. App. LEXIS 1043

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  • holding that the phrase “any person being then lawfully therein” in the armed burglary statute does not require the victim to be home at the time of the breaking and entering
  • “[Wjhen a [criminal] statute employs specific language in one portion, and excludes it in another, the language should not be implied where it is missing”; applying the statutory definition of armed burglary, G. L. c. 266, § 14

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Judges: Doerfer

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