Commonwealth v. Fayerweather

How courts have described this case

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

• “intentional or reckless delay by the government” and “ ‘severe prejudice’ needed to justify the ‘drastic remedy’ of dismissal”
• evidence is generally relevant where it tends to prove any issue in case, or makes desired inference more probable than it would otherwise be
• for the drastic remedy of dismissal of an indictment, intentional or reckless delay by the government resulting in severe prejudice to the defendant must be shown
• expert not required for jury “to understand the significance of the words ‘she claims to hear the voice of her sister’s boyfriend telling her to do things’ ”
• a child sexual abuse case
• a child sexual abuse case

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).