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Commonwealth v. Brown

Citations

  • 462 Mass. 620
  • 970 N.E.2d 306
  • 2012 WL 2401764
  • 2012 Mass. LEXIS 585

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  • risk of any unfair prejudice from admission of alleged prejudicial information mitigated by absence of any reference to such information in prosecutor's closing argument
  • although defendant’s speech was “sluggish” from influence of drugs, his statements were voluntary where “there [was] nothing to suggest that he was acting irrationally or was out of control, or that his denials were induced by psychological coercion”

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Judges: Gants

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