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Commonwealth v. Estremera

Citations

  • 419 N.E.2d 835
  • 383 Mass. 382
  • 1981 Mass. LEXIS 1201

How courts have described this case

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

  • concluding that trial court’s instructions on criminal responsibility were equivalent to a proper instruction on malice
  • “Absent some reason to suspect that jurors may be so prejudiced ... a judge is warranted in relying upon his final charge to the jury to purge any bias from the jurors prior to their deliberations”
  • whether jurors harbored prejudice against psychiatrists

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Judges: Hennessey, Braucher, Wilkins, Liacos, Abrams

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