Commonwealth v. Cullen

How courts have described this case

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• judge entitled to infer sanity from facts underlying crime and evidence of defendant’s actions before and after crime and to reject expert testimony of two psychiatrists that defendant was insane
• Thejury may “infer sanity from the ‘facts underlying the crime and evidence of [the defendant’s] actions before and after the crime’ ”
• sufficient evidence of sanity where defendant \threw a rock at a marked police cruiser\ and fired gunshots at officers but attempted to evade capture
• in case not governed by § 33E, defendant authorized to file motion for new trial to seek consideration of weight of evidence on insanity
• “the judge was entitled to infer sanity from the facts underlying the crime”
• within discretion of fact finder to place little or no weight on expert evidence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).