Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1/15/1999

Commonwealth v. Charles

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428 Mass. 672
704 N.E.2d 1137
1999 Mass. LEXIS 10

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sufficient corroboration where other “independent evidence” supported declarant’s statement to investigator describing his dual roles as driver and passenger in fraudulent insurance claim case
“Given the other evidence of Grebauski’s involvement, the statement would have ‘had but very slight effect’ on the jury.”
jurors were properly instructed that to find that the defendant acted as a joint venturer, they must conclude that he “entered into an agreement or meeting of the minds with one other coventurer”
only the part of the testimony containing declarations against penal interest properly admissible

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Judges: Greaney

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