Massachusetts Appeals Court· 12/31/1984

Commonwealth v. Kane

Citations

472 N.E.2d 1343
19 Mass. App. Ct. 129
1984 Mass. App. LEXIS 1882

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instruction erroneous where judge instructed “[tjhe presumption of innocence remains with the defendant until evidence of guilt is introduced” [emphasis added]
“a ‘jury may raise very damaging inferences from the bare fact that the defendant has somehow flown’ ”
when trial conducted in absentia, defendant may seek new trial if further information reveals absence was involuntary
weak evidence of consciousness of guilt should be excluded or jury charged against making inference
impermissible for judge “to array the facts with a bias [whether or not conscious] and so in effect to ‘comment’ on the evidence, to convey his own view of where the weight of the evidence lies”

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Judges: Grant, Kaplan, Fine

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