Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 10/31/2003

Commonwealth v. Santos

Citations

440 Mass. 281
797 N.E.2d 1191
2003 Mass. LEXIS 717

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explaining that the use of “actual force” or the “threat of force” are two “alternative... forms of assault” that can be used to commit robbery
describing the assault element of armed robbery as requiring either a “threat” or an “application of force”
vacating a conviction of assault by means of a dangerous weapon as duplicative of a conviction of armed robbery, even though one was not a lesser included offense of the other, because no separate and distinct act instruction was given
jury were not required to be unanimous as to which form of assault was relied on to satisfy assault element of armed robbery
“[V]oluntary and involuntary manslaughter are mutually exclusive — one cannot kill both intentionally and unintentionally at the same time.”
conviction of assault by means of a dangerous weapon vacated as duplicative of an armed robbeiy charge

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