73 Mass. App. Ct. 190 - Commonwealth v. Boyd’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
21
cited by 21 later decisions
1
states following
July 2019
most recently cited
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 11 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Latimore · Johnson v. United States · Morey v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth v. Bradshaw · Commonwealth v. Jones
Most-quoted passages
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“). 8 . See Commonwealth v. Boyd, 73 Mass.App.Ct. 190 , 897 N.E.2d 71 , 75 (2008) (”[T]he elements of the crime of kidnapping required the Commonwealth to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant [inter alia] forcibly confined the victim .... Forcible conduct includes acts of actual physical force or the display of potential force.” (citing Commonwealth v. Caracciola, 409 Mass. 648 , 569 N.E.2d 774 (1991), in which the Supreme Judicial Council of Massachusetts held that the defendant’s pretending to be a police officer and threatening to arrest the victim constituted”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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