Commonwealth v. Bucknam

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• a judge’s discretion under G. L. c. 233, § 21, is not limited to defendants, but applies to all witnesses
• we have not adopted role that would provide that judge does not have discretion to exclude evidence of conviction of witness other than defendant

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).