Commonwealth v. Carita

How courts have described this case

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

• that defendant not found in his usual haunts was insufficient to support consciousness of guilt demonstrated by flight
• \It is well settled that evidence of flight may be introduced to show consciousness of guilt\
• Balliro rule unsatisfied where prosecutor communicated witness’s refusal
• “we do not view absences from places not shown to be locations where an individual may customarily resort as properly admissible in evidence. The cumulative effect of such evidence to support consciousness of guilt is capable of an effect as injurious as it is invalid”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).