1. Home
  2. Browse Decisions
  3. Mass.
  4. 431 Mass.
  5. 431 Mass. 453 (2000)
 

COMMONWEALTH v. NIKAS

431 Mass. 453 (2000)

COMMONWEALTH v. JOHN E. NIKAS, JR.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

May 11, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Douglas E. Zemel, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Edward B. Gaffney for the defendant.

Present: MARSHALL, C.J., ABRAMS, LYNCH, GREANEY, IRELAND, & SPINA, JJ.

ABRAMS, J.

On June 24, 1983, the defendant, John E. Nikas, Jr., pleaded guilty to carrying a firearm without a license and murder in the second degree.1 After a colloquy that is the subject of this appeal, the judge accepted the defendant's guilty pleas. The judge sentenced the defendant to from three to five years for the firearm violation, to run concurrently with a life sentence for the murder.

In October, 1996, the defendant...

Let's get started

Leagle.com

Welcome to the leading source of independent legal reporting
Sign on now to see your case.
Or view more than 10 million decisions and orders.

  • Updated daily.
  • Uncompromising quality.
  • Complete, Accurate, Current.

Listed below are the cases that are cited in this Featured Case. Click the citation to see the full text of the cited case. Citations are also linked in the body of the Featured Case.

Cited Cases

  • No Cases Found

Listed below are those cases in which this Featured Case is cited. Click on the case name to see the full text of the citing case.

Citing Cases