Commonwealth v. Bjorkman

How courts have described this case

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

• “doubt based upon a reason,” even if of doubtful propriety, not prejudicial in context of charge in its entirety
• “the phrase ‘doubt based upon a reason,’ even if of doubtful propriety standing alone, could not have caused any prejudicial shifting of the Commonwealth’s burden of proof in the minds of the jurors”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).