Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 7/30/2019
Commonwealth v. Bryant
Citations
- 128 N.E.3d 40
- 482 Mass. 731
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- noting effectiveness of limiting instructions to limit jury consideration of bad acts evidence
- \The effectiveness of limiting instructions in minimizing the risk of unfair prejudice should be considered in balancing prejudice and probative value\
- best practice to give limiting instruction \at the time\ evidence of defendant's prior bad acts admitted
- limits on bad act evidence prohibit prosecution from introducing evidence of defendant's prior \misbehavior\ to show bad character or criminal propensity
- jury presumed to follow limiting 4 The victim's and defendant's total testimony amounted to over ninety pages and forty pages, respectively. 5 instructions on other bad act evidence
- effectiveness of limiting instructions should be considered in balancing probative value versus unfair prejudice
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Judges: Gants, Gaziano, Lowy, Budd, Cypher
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Cites
27 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.
- Commonwealth v. HelfantMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1986-08-13· cited 274×
- Commonwealth v. BradshawMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1982-02-12· cited 232×
- Commonwealth v. CraytonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2014-12-17· cited 226×
- Commonwealth v. RodriguezMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1979-06-21· cited 195×
- Commonwealth v. WilsonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1998-04-22· cited 156×
- Commonwealth v. DonahueMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2000-02-03· cited 97×
- Commonwealth v. LintonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2010-04-16· cited 72×
- Commonwealth v. GomesMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2015-01-12· cited 70×
- Commonwealth v. ForteMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2014-08-22· cited 65×
- Commonwealth v. DunnMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1990-07-03· cited 60×
- Commonwealth v. MarreroMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1998-03-12· cited 54×
- Commonwealth v. KilburnMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1997-10-27· cited 50×
- Commonwealth v. DurandMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2016-10-07· cited 41×
- Commonwealth v. BryantMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2006-08-25· cited 39×
- Commonwealth v. RutherfordMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2017-03-16· cited 38×
- Commonwealth v. LeonardiMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1992-12-10· cited 32×
- Commonwealth v. ChubbuckMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1981-12-16· cited 32×
- Commonwealth v. BastaldoMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2015-06-25· cited 31×
- Commonwealth v. CarterMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2016-09-19· cited 26×
- Commonwealth v. Dung Van TranMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2012-07-26· cited 19×
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