State v. Pinkham
Annotate this CaseAfter entering conditional guilty pleas to several counts of an indictment and a bench trial on aggravating factors only, Defendant was convicted of three counts of aggravated trafficking in scheduled drugs (Class A) and one count of possession of a firearm by a prohibited person. The Supreme Judicial Court vacated the judgments of conviction, holding (1) in this case, the State was required to prove specific weights of actual heroin, not mixtures or compounds containing some amount of heroin; and (2) the State did not prove the weight of the actual heroin involved. Remanded.
Court Description: Corrected September 1, 2016 (Errata sheet)
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