Commonwealth v. Dilone

How courts have described this case

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

• endorsing “any reasonable procedure” by which instructions are made available in writing to jury
• minor discrep andes between evidence presented to grand jury and evidence presented at trial cannot invalidate the indictment
• no abuse of discretion to reject plea even if judge had practice of rejecting Alford pleas, where other judges would have accepted such pleas
• no abuse of discretion to reject plea even if judge had practice of rejecting Alford pleas, where other judges would have accepted such pleas
• failure to list defense of accident on a chart judge gave to the jury not reversible error where the defendant did not object and the charge explicitly advised the jury that if the death was accidental, it would be a lawful homicide

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).