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· 3/5/1980

Commonwealth v. Hawley

Citations

  • 401 N.E.2d 827
  • 380 Mass. 70
  • 1980 Mass. LEXIS 1049

How courts have described this case

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

  • “The preferred action . . . would have been to charge the jury then and there”
  • prosecutor’s suggestion that because trial counsel witnessed the affidavits of the defendants, he was an active participant in the alleged perjury, was unwarranted
  • counsel has duty to alert judge timely to prosecutorial abuse, but form of objection is not prescribed

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Judges: Abrams, Hennessey, Kaplan, Quirico, Wilkins

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