Commonwealth v. Errington

How courts have described this case

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• emphasizing that \[a] witness who has been impeached by his testimony that he was silent in circumstances naturally calling for expression may explain why he was silent\
• stressing importance of rehabilitation to answer “why” questions suggested by impeachment
• admission of evidence of victim’s state of mind justified by prosecutor’s need to rehabilitate the witness
• reversed on grounds hearsay testimony was admissible under an exception to the hearsay rule
• where victim impeached on cross-examination, hearsay statement admissible for nonhearsay rehabilitation purposes
• testimony is admissible for rehabilitation purposes when “the fact that the statement was made, regardless of its truth or falsity, tended to rehabilitate the Commonwealth’s witness by explaining why, after a long period of silence, she complained of the defendant’s conduct”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).