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· 1/22/1986

Commonwealth v. Crowe

Citations

  • 488 N.E.2d 780
  • 21 Mass. App. Ct. 456
  • 1986 Mass. App. LEXIS 1360

How courts have described this case

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

  • whether inference is warranted or impermissibly remote is determined not by hard and fast rules of law, but by experience and common sense
  • court concluded that motion judge, who had adopted victim’s facts in findings without specifically determining credibility, had credited her testimony in those respects
  • photographic identifications suppressed on the ground that they were a product of an illegal detention resulting from an illegal arrest of the defendants
  • “[I]t is necessary that the portion of the statement that the [proponent] seeks to introduce qualify or explain the segment introduced by the [the other party]”
  • nolle prosequi of complaint does not ordinarily bar indictment

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Judges: Brown, Kass, Warner

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