Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 8/7/1979

Commonwealth v. Campbell

Citations

393 N.E.2d 820
378 Mass. 680
1979 Mass. LEXIS 893

How courts have described this case

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holding prosecutor had no \duty to investigate\ Department of Correction records \in the remote hope of discovering something that might tend to exculpate the defendants\
declining to hold that prosecutor must disclose information held by Department of Corrections because \prosecutor has no duty to investigate every possible source of exculpatory information\
murder; individual voir dire not required in absence of demonstrated risk of decision on extraneous grounds
requirement that correction officer be positioned outside open door of interview room reasonable where witness was inmate who had previously escaped from custody
where there is no substantial risk, \a judge may propound voir dire questions collectively\
defendant not deprived of right to counsel where he did not demonstrate that “communication at any particu lar juncture was both impossible and essential to securing a fair trial”

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Judges: Hennessey, Quirico, Braucher, Kaplan, Wilkins

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