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· 2/19/2015

Commonwealth v. Housewright

Citations

  • 470 Mass. 665
  • 25 N.E.3d 273

How courts have described this case

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

  • “[W]e have yet to provide trial judges with a framework to analyze whether a witness is unavailable because of illness or infirmity. We do so now”
  • despite fact that gun was not recovered, there was sufficient and competent evidence to establish operability based on witnesses’ testimony that witnesses saw “the defendant load[ ] and then fire[ ] a weapon that looked like a gun, sounded like a gun, and flashed like a gun”

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Judges: Botsford, Cordy, Duffly, Gants, Hines, Lenk, Spina

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