Commonwealth v. Bonace

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that “[b]efore finding conduct ‘outrageous’ we would be required to find extensive and nefarious police involvement in, and encouragement of, criminal activities”
• affirming trial court’s denial of defense request for a mistrial as the inadmissible evidence testified to by the trooper was elicited by defense counsel and was a fair response to the question posed
• “Mere ‘passing references’ to prior criminal activity will not necessarily require reversal unless the record illustrates definitively that prejudice resulted from the reference.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).