Cepulonis v. Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution

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• A defendant must object to claims of error at trial, for if he “does not avail himself of the opportunity, he must be holden to a waiver of the objection. Otherwise he would be permitted to lie by and speculate upon the chances of a verdict, and that cannot be tolerated.”
• election at trial court’s discretion

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