Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2/20/1996

Commonwealth v. Williams

Citations

422 Mass. 111
661 N.E.2d 617
1996 Mass. LEXIS 37

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discussing “plan to murder” formed within few seconds as sufficient to meet period of reflection needed for deliberately premeditated murder
finding of joint venture warranted where evidence showed defendant was present at the scene of the crime and that he and another entered the building together and fled together
because arrest was proper, police were permitted to seize as evidence clothing and shoes worn by defendant at time of arrest
\use of a firearm in the killing is sufficient to support a verdict of murder in the first degree based on deliberately premeditated malice aforethought\
“use of a firearm in the killing is sufficient to support a verdict of murder in the first degree based on deliberately premeditated malice aforethought”
“No degree of suspicion, reasonable or otherwise, was constitutionally required for the police to commence surveillance” by following suspect vehicle

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Judges: Abrams

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