Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 4/3/1996

Commonwealth v. Morgan

Citations

422 Mass. 373
663 N.E.2d 247
1996 Mass. LEXIS 68

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no serious question as to malice where knife with six-inch blade used to stab victim in abdomen
frame of mind language did not create a substantial likelihood of a miscarriage of justice
“right of self-defense ordinarily cannot be claimed by a person who provokes or initiates an assault”
stabbing victim in abdomen with knife with six-inch blade
using standard of debilitating intoxication to judge voluntariness
defendant stabbed victim in abdomen

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