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· 11/5/1971

Commonwealth v. Rego

Citations

  • 274 N.E.2d 795
  • 360 Mass. 385
  • 1971 Mass. LEXIS 728

How courts have described this case

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  • similarly reducing verdict to murder in second degree where substantial evidence supported that killing occurred during breaking and entering
  • in context of felony-murder conviction based on armed robbery, evidence warranted inference that killing occurred while defendants were committing lesser crime of breaking and entering; issue analyzed as one involving degrees of murder, not lesser included offenses

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Judges: Tauro, Cutter, Reardon, Braucher, Hennessey

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