Commonwealth v. Collett

How courts have described this case

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

• in evaluating whether testimony regarding the defendant’s prearrest silence was properly admitted, the court reasoned that the prosecutor “did not ask the jury to infer an admission or consciousness of guilt from the defendant’s silence”
• explanation of conflict in testimony characterized by defendant as misunderstand ing
• witness’s testimony that defendant did not respond to witness’s statement that “[tjhat kind of force could not have created the injuries [the victim] had” was not invitation for jury to draw impermissible inference of guilt from defendant’s silence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Diaz
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1984-11-29· cited 36×
• Commonwealth v. Flanagan
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1985-07-29· cited 25×
• State v. Tsujimura.
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 2017-05-31· cited 24×
• Weisbeck v. Hess
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1994-11-09· cited 20×
• Commonwealth v. Powers
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1994-02-17· cited 11×
• Commonwealth v. Wilcox
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2008-08-12· cited 11×
• Commonwealth v. Proulx
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1987-03-04· cited 4×
• Commonwealth v. Brimley
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1985-02-21· cited 1×

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• DeJoinville v. Commonwealth
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1980-08-04· cited 79×
• Commonwealth v. Collett
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1982-09-20· cited 46×
• Commonwealth v. United Food Corp.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1978-04-11· cited 34×
• Commonwealth v. Ward
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1983-03-03· cited 32×
• Commonwealth v. Fratus
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1982-03-12· cited 10×