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Commonwealth v. Cassidy

Citations

  • 470 Mass. 201
  • 21 N.E.3d 127

How courts have described this case

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

  • arguments unsupported by \individual legal analysis or citation to the relevant legal authority\ are insufficient under rule 16
  • \Evidence of . . . false statements to police . . . generally is admissible as some evidence of consciousness of guilt\
  • \Evidence of flight . . . generally is admissible as some evidence of consciousness of guilt\
  • layered hearsay with uncertain sources unreliable and inadmissible as third-party culprit evidence
  • rebuttal to consciousness of guilt evidence

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Judges: Gants, Spina, Botsford, Lenk, Hines

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