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Commonwealth v. Healy

Citations

  • 452 Mass. 510
  • 895 N.E.2d 752
  • 2008 Mass. LEXIS 770

How courts have described this case

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

  • concluding that preserved error stemming from combining bench trial and motion to suppress was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt
  • discouraging District Court practice of consolidating bench 5 trials with suppression hearings and stating that \the practice should be eliminated\
  • no prejudice in admission of improper evidence where trial judge assumed to correctly instruct himself on law
  • \we assume that the judge gave no weight to the [inadmissible] evidence for the purposes of trial and considered it only for the [other] purposes\
  • in sentencing, \[j]udges may not punish the defendant for offenses of which he or she does not stand convicted in the particular case\

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Judges: Cowin

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