Commonwealth v. Peterson

How courts have described this case

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

• waiver of right to indictment must be explicit, voluntary, intelligent, and “freely and knowingly given”
• “While we have held that a defendant’s waiver of his right to indictment must be explicit ... we have not held that the execution of a written waiver is constitutionally required for it to be effective”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

2 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Edward
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2009-09-02· cited 23×
• Commonwealth v. Roderiques
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2011-01-05· cited 2×

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Miranda v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 58,288×
• Commonwealth v. Jimenez
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2002-12-12· cited 163×
• Commonwealth v. Groome
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2001-10-05· cited 117×
• Ciummei v. Commonwealth
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1979-07-25· cited 115×
• Lataille v. District Court of Eastern Hampden
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1974-12-16· cited 62×
• Commonwealth v. O'Brien
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2000-10-18· cited 50×
• Commonwealth v. McCravy
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2000-02-14· cited 39×
• Jones v. Robbins
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1857-03-15· cited 36×
• National Lumber Co. v. LeFrancois Construction Corp.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2000-01-28· cited 36×
• DeGolyer v. Commonwealth
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1943-10-28· cited 29×
• Commonwealth v. Osachuk
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1994-07-11· cited 15×
• Commonwealth v. Lester L.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2005-10-07· cited 14×
• District Attorney for the Norfolk District v. Quincy Division of the District Court Department
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2005-05-10· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. Perry P.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1994-11-14· cited 8×