Commonwealth v. Welch
| Docket Number | SJC-11839 |
| Decision Date | 14 May 2021 |
The Supreme Judicial Court affirmed Defendant's conviction of murder in the first degree on theories of both deliberate premeditation and extreme atrocity or cruelty, holding that there was no reversible error either in any issue raised by Defendant or in this Court's review under Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 33E
Specifically, the Supreme Judicial Court held (1) the trial court did not err in denying Defendant's motion to suppress handwritten note and oral statements he made to officers while he was...
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13 cases
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Comm. for Pub. Counsel Servs. v. Barnstable Cnty. Sheriff's Office
...by the special master, according deference to any findings "drawn partly or wholly from testimonial evidence." Commonwealth v. Welch, 487 Mass. 425, 429, 167 N.E.3d 1201 (2021), quoting Commonwealth v. Tremblay, 480 Mass. 645, 655, 107 N.E.3d 1121 (2018). Here, the special master did not he......
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Commonwealth v. Carrasquillo
...his or her privacy, the character of the object searched, and the nature of the government intrusion. See Commonwealth v. Welch, 487 Mass. 425, 433, 167 N.E.3d 1201 (2021) ; Commonwealth v. Berry, 420 Mass. 95, 106 n.9, 648 N.E.2d 732 (1995). With respect to ordinary protective measures, we......
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Commonwealth v. Williams
...Mass. 186, 190, 65 N.E.3d 1185 (2017). "We review a judge’s evidentiary rulings for an abuse of discretion." Commonwealth v. Welch, 487 Mass. 425, 440, 167 N.E.3d 1201 (2021), quoting Commonwealth v. Andre, 484 Mass. 403, 414, 142 N.E.3d 60 (2020). When an objection is preserved at trial, a......
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