Commonwealth v. Cundriff

How courts have described this case

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

• tracing Massachusetts common-law knock and announce rule’s basis to English common law
• without a showing of prejudice by late disclosure of inculpatory evidence, new trial cannot be granted
• trial court’s finding that announcement would have endangered police amply supported where defendant was suspect in armed robbery involving handguns and sawed-off shotgun
• no prejudice from late disclosure of inculpatory evidence where judge continued case for one day, and defendant did not request more time for investigation
• defendant must demonstrate prejudice by late disclosure and how new trial would substantially remedy that prejudice
• court recognized late disclosure claim based on failure to turn over defendant’s inculpatory statement but concluded relief was not warranted where defendant was not prejudiced

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).