Commonwealth v. Alcide

How courts have described this case

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• counsel ineffective for failing to interview witnesses who had information relevant to a third-party defense
• it is not ineffective assistance to fail to make objection that would have been futile under prevailing case law
• trial counsel's failure to introduce significant discovery that supported defendant's third-party culprit defense constituted ineffective assistance
• after failing to make unequivocal identifications of defendant in photographic arrays, two witnesses encountered defendant’s photograph in newspaper articles; one witness also reported being shown photograph of defendant at district attorney’s office
• \A judge's authority to exclude severely unreliable identification testimony is closely related to his or her more general 'discretion to exclude evidence that is more prejudicial than probative' \ [citation omitted]
• failure to interview witnesses pertinent to a third-party culprit defense

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).