Commonwealth v. Amran

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “Where the judge promptly struck the improper testimony and gave a highly specific curative instruction, the judge acted appropriately and within her discretion”
• \The question whether the inflammatory quality of a [video recording] outweighs its probative value and precludes its admission is determined in the sound discretion of the trial judge\
• \judge may mitigate prejudice\ by \alerting the venire\ that graphic evidence might be shown, asking potential jurors about potential difficulty with evidence, and \by instructing the jury that they should not be swayed by emotion\
• “A trial judge is in the best position to determine whether a mistrial, an extreme measure available to a trial judge to address error, is necessary, or whether a less drastic measure, such as a curative instruction, is adequate”
• no prejudice where curative instruction deemed sufficient by defense counsel

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).