Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 3/5/1980

Commonwealth v. Cole

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402 N.E.2d 55
380 Mass. 30
1980 Mass. LEXIS 1046

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in context of criminal responsibility, jurors may rely on facts and circumstances surrounding crime to determine whether Commonwealth established defendant’s sanity
defendant raised issue of voluntariness at voir dire, objected on that basis when statements introduced at trial and adduced extensive psychotic evidence of involuntariness, creating a duty to instruct jury on voluntariness
where psychiatrists were of the opinion that defendant’s statements were consistent with claim of lack of criminal responsibility question of voluntariness should have been submitted to jury

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Judges: Hennessey, Quirico, Kaplan, Wilkins, Abrams

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