Commonwealth v. Verde

Decided May 19, 2005. Roderick L. Ireland wrote the opinion for the court.

444 Mass. 279 · Cited 110 times

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Decisions in our collection this opinion relies on, ordered by how often it cites each. Cases we publish link through; others open the full text.

• Commonwealth v. Harvard · 253 N.E.2d 346
• Commonwealth v. Saferian · 315 N.E.2d 878
• Commonwealth v. Kozec · 505 N.E.2d 519
• Commonwealth v. Fitzgerald · 381 N.E.2d 123
• Commonwealth v. Mello · 420 Mass. 375
• Commonwealth v. Montanez · 571 N.E.2d 1372
• People v. Rogers · 8 A.D.3d 888
• Commonwealth v. Johnson · 602 N.E.2d 555
• Commonwealth v. Bergstrom · 524 N.E.2d 366
• Commonwealth v. Lodge · 431 Mass. 461
• People v. Johnson · 18 Cal. Rptr. 3d 230
• Commonwealth v. Murphy · 442 Mass. 485
• Commonwealth v. Beland · 436 Mass. 273
• Commonwealth v. Sabetti · 585 N.E.2d 1385
• State v. Thackaberry · 95 P.3d 1142
• Commonwealth v. Westerman · 611 N.E.2d 215
• Commonwealth v. Claudio · 541 N.E.2d 993
• Commonwealth v. Claudio · 525 N.E.2d 449

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• People v. Hinojos-Mendoza · 140 P.3d 30
• People v. Geier · 161 P.3d 104
• Michels v. Commonwealth · 624 S.E.2d 675
• Commonwealth v. Loadholt · 456 Mass. 411
• Commonwealth v. Melendez-Diaz · 460 Mass. 238
• Hinojos-Mendoza v. People · 169 P.3d 662
• State v. Crager · 164 Ohio App. 3d 816
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• Jackson v. State · 891 N.E.2d 657
• Commonwealth v. Lezynski · 466 Mass. 113
• Commonwealth v. Durand · 457 Mass. 574
• Commonwealth v. Maloney · 447 Mass. 577
• Commonwealth v. Boria · 460 Mass. 249
• Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts · 557 U.S. 305
• State v. Chun · 943 A.2d 114
• State v. Caulfield · 722 N.W.2d 304
• Commonwealth v. Barbosa · 457 Mass. 773
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