Commonwealth v. Greineder

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that defense counsel may have wanted to forgo a Frye challenge to tip off the prosecution about a particular line of attack
• declining to find that the trial judge’s use of the word “non-public” to mean the public was excluded from the voir dire
• “Defense counsel made extensive use of the data prepared by [original DNA analyst]” to buttress “theory that a third party committed the murder”
• “The ultimate question of fact before us is whether there was a court order or other official action that excluded the public . . . from [the court room]”
• testimony concerning data, “while providing basis for [the] opinion, was hearsay”
• “There is no merit to the argument that it is implausible that only a handful of people would have attended voir dire in a case that attracted national attention, and that the only plausible explanation is that the court room was closed to the public”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

22 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Commonwealth v. Greineder
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2013-03-14· cited 65×
• Commonwealth v. Cavitt
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2011-09-21· cited 36×
• Commonwealth v. Wood
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2014-08-07· cited 34×
• Commonwealth v. Lally
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2016-03-03· cited 30×
• Commonwealth v. Grassie
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2017-01-06· cited 29×
• Smaland Beach Ass'n v. Genova
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2012-01-05· cited 27×
• People v. Luna
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2013-04-25· cited 22×
• Commonwealth v. Silva
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2019-05-15· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. Munoz
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2011-12-15· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. Grant
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2010-12-17· cited 8×
• Commonwealth v. Gardner
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2018-06-18· cited 7×
• Commonwealth v. McGrail
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2011-09-02· cited 7×
• Commonwealth v. Lezynski
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2013-08-02· cited 3×
• Commonwealth v. Tassone
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2013-01-29· cited 2×
• Commonwealth v. Jones
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2013-02-15· cited 2×
• Commonwealth v. Rivera
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2012-12-03· cited 1×
• Turner v. United States
  Supreme Court· 2012-06-29· cited 1×
• Commonwealth v. Rakes
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2017-09-29
• Commonwealth v. Barsell
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2017-11-16
• Commonwealth v. Lang
  Massachusetts Superior Court· 2011-01-31