Commonwealth v. Arsenault

How courts have described this case

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

• “The Commonwealth made no binding agreement or stipulation locking itself into the theory of its first trial”
• ‘The Commonwealth made no binding agreement or stipulation locking itself into the theory of the first trial’
• numerous references to “prior proceeding” coupled with testimony that witness had met defendant while in prison gave rise to inference that defendant had been previously tried and convicted
• commutation does not disturb conviction but simply remits portion of sentence
• evidence excluded merely corroborated defendant’s testimony
• prior convictions usually address bad character

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).