Commonwealth v. Osborne

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• written waiver \particularly meaningful because it 'create[s] a moment of pause and reflection on the part of the defendant that is concomitant with signing one's name to a formal declaration relinquishing that right'\
• “The solemnity of the written waiver and the formality of the colloquy also further the purposeQ of . . . ensuring an evidentiary record that will foreclose most posttrial disputes about whether the waiver was knowingly and voluntarily made”
• “It is reasonable to assume that the Legislature intended to create a moment of pause and reflection on the part of a defendant that is concomitant with signing one’s name to a formal declaration relinquishing th[e] right [to a jury trial]”
• discussing burdens of proof in various contexts
• absence of written jury waiver mandates reversal

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

13 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Duart
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2017-08-17· cited 22×
• Commonwealth v. Dussault
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2008-04-10· cited 19×
• Commonwealth v. Hoyle
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2006-07-28· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. Hubbard
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2010-05-27· cited 4×
• Commonwealth v. Leonardi
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2010-02-16· cited 4×
• Porcaro v. O'Rourke
  Mass. Dist. Ct., App. Div.· 2008-09-25· cited 3×
• Commonwealth v. Dery
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2008-12-23· cited 2×
• Commonwealth v. Johnson
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2011-05-17· cited 2×
• Commonwealth v. Bennefield
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2019-05-13· cited 1×
• Commonwealth v. Castro
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2008-07-18· cited 1×
• Commonwealth v. Backus
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2011-01-20· cited 1×
• Commonwealth v. Hurley
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2018-06-26
• Commonwealth v. Cronin
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2018-10-24

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Duncan v. Louisiana
  Supreme Court· 1968-05-20· cited 3,740×
• Ciummei v. Commonwealth
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1979-07-25· cited 115×
• Commonwealth v. Robles
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1996-06-25· cited 45×
• Commonwealth v. Pavao
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1996-11-18· cited 39×
• Commonwealth v. Collado
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1998-02-12· cited 32×
• Commonwealth v. Francis
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1978-04-05· cited 19×
• Gallo v. Commonwealth
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1961-12-22· cited 19×
• Commonwealth v. Wheeler
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1997-04-10· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. Osborne
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2004-11-09· cited 2×