Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 3/27/1974

Commonwealth v. Ferguson

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365 Mass. 1
309 N.E.2d 182
1974 Mass. LEXIS 620

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where we noted that judge’s analogy to important decisions in the jurors’ personal lives was “not entirely apt,” and was “best discontinued”
from “apprehension] that the intended victim might resist,” jury could infer that the defendant in planned robbery knew that other participants were armed
within discretion of trial judge to determine “what parts of the evidence should be referred to”
from “apprehension] that the intended victim might resist,” jury could infer that defendant in planned robbery knew that other participants were armed
“a person joining in a robbery under conditions like the present, and apprehending that the intended victim might resist, could suppose that the other actorQ might be furnished with [a] weapon[]”
handcuffed defendant appeared in courtroom in view of jury

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