Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 6/20/1975

Commonwealth v. Ferrara

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330 N.E.2d 837
368 Mass. 182
1975 Mass. LEXIS 984

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attendant circumstances considered in balancing policy interest in protecting confidentiality of juvenile offender’s record against defendant’s right to cross-examine
State policy of protecting witness’s record of juvenile offenses from public exposure must yield to defendant’s right to confrontation
inference of involuntary manslaughter was warranted where witness testified that he did not think defendants were aiming rifle at victim
testimony of a witness permitted inference of recklessness and supported the verdicts of manslaughter
both interpreting Davis to pertain only to impeachment by showing bias or prejudice

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