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Commonwealth v. Barnett

Citations

  • 354 N.E.2d 879
  • 371 Mass. 87
  • 1976 Mass. LEXIS 1143

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  • “prompt confrontation yielding a negative result, besides freeing the innocent, informs the police that a possible predisposition on their part is or may be in error and releases them quickly to follow another track”
  • showup within one hour after crime; confrontation not impermissibly suggestive
  • identification on the same night of crime is prompt
  • victim believed to be seriously wounded

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Hennessey, Kaplan, Qumico, Wilkins

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