Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 12/17/2014

Commonwealth v. Collins

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470 Mass. 255
21 N.E.3d 528

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precluding in-court identification where witness made less than positive pretrial identification, except on showing of “good reason”
requiring Commonwealth on prospective basis to move in limine to allow in-court identification testimony by eyewitness who “has not made an unequivocal positive identification of the defendant before trial”
requiring good reason for in-court identification where out-of-court identification was less than unequivocal
using \potential witness\ to describe those on witness list during trial
defense counsel not ineffective for failing to object to admission of in-court identification when its admission “conformed to our case law”
we shall prospectively apply new rule in Crayton where, before trial, witness made “something less than an unequivocal positive identification” during nonsuggestive procedure

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Judges: Gants, Spina, Cordy, Botsford, Duffly, Lenk, Hines

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