Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 3/30/2005

Commonwealth v. Farley

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443 Mass. 740
824 N.E.2d 797
2005 Mass. LEXIS 144

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upholding finding of privilege in murder trial where testimony would tend to incriminate witness as drug dealer
finding no abuse of discretion where judge did not allow impeachment by extrinsic evidence on collateral issue of witness's credibility
location of multiple stab wounds with knife carried from kitchen sufficient evidence to establish deliberate premeditation
among other failings in conducting defense at trial, counsel “simply recited the evidence” in his closing and did not marshal it
Commonwealth must “prove each and every element of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt”
Commonwealth must prove \each and every element\ of crime beyond reasonable doubt

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