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· 10/28/2014

Commonwealth v. Carriere

Citations

  • 470 Mass. 1
  • 18 N.E.3d 326

How courts have described this case

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

  • explaining that “[a] defendant has a constitutional right to present a defense, and to offer evidence that another person committed the crime”
  • “The absence of an objection at trial may be viewed as ‘some indication that the tone [and] manner ... of the now challenged aspects of the prosecutor’s argument were not unfairly prejudicial’ ” [citation omitted]

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Judges: Spina, Cordy, Duffly, Lenk

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