Commonwealth v. Azar

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• evidence tending to show defendant’s state of mind and inferences made from evidence need not be proved beyond reasonable doubt
• evidence misquoted, but error harmless because we assume some measure of jury sophistication in ability to sort out hyperbole and speculation
• proper to contrast defendant’s lack of explanation to family regarding child’s death with details defense offered at trial
• evidence tending to show defendant’s prior bad acts and state of mind need not be proved beyond reasonable doubt
• four month old child left in custody of defendant on morning when she suffered multiple fractures of bones and other severe injuries
• four month old child left in custody of defendant on morning when she suffered multiple fractures of bones and other severe injuries

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).