Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 5/18/1994

Commonwealth v. Jackson

Citations

633 N.E.2d 1031
417 Mass. 830
1994 Mass. LEXIS 298

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allowing evidence of prior bad act in a subsequent case for the sole purpose of identification of the defendant based on a distinctive modus operandi
evidence of murder sufficient where hair similar to victim’s was found in defendant’s car, defendant displayed consciousness of guilt, and defendant possessed means to commit the crime and tried to destroy evidence of the crime
sufficient evidence of kidnapping where “there was evidence that the victim was transported, that he was alive at the time that he was bound, and that the manner in which he was bound would have rendered him incapacitated”

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Judges: Liacos, Wilkins, Nolan, Lynch, Greaney

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