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Commonwealth v. Gonzalez

Citations

  • 475 Mass. 396
  • 56 N.E.3d 1271

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  • bringing firearm to lethal encounter 21 implied shared intent to kill
  • expert testimony necessary to admit opinion, based on cell phone records, as to which cell site transmitted call
  • defendant's conviction could not be sustained based only on possibility or probability that she participated in joint venture
  • insufficient evidence of possible driver's lethal intent when driver dropped shooter off at scene of shooting but no evidence presented that defendant heard perpetrators express lethal intent, or that defendant saw weapons
  • motive and consciousness of guilt combined are insufficient to establish guilt beyond reasonable doubt
  • evidence of flight may be introduced as probative of guilty mind \if there is an adequate factual predicate creating an inference of guilt of the crime charged\ [quotation omitted]

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Judges: Gants, Cordy, Botsford, Lenk, Hines

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