Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 8/30/2000

Commonwealth v. Kater

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432 Mass. 404
734 N.E.2d 1164
2000 Mass. LEXIS 529

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meaningfully distinctive where both kidnapped girls “were bound in a way that was designed to cause death by strangulation when the subject’s head fell forward from sleep or fatigue” even though kidnappings were ten years apart
“a certain level of emotion on the part of the jurors could be expected from this type of trial”
we examine “what specific or general instructions the judge gave the jury which may have mitigated the mistake”
earlier bad acts not too remote in time because defendant spent nearly all of intervening period in prison
“An extraneous issue is one that goes beyond the record and raises a serious question of possible prejudice”
testimony aided in whole or in part by hypnosis no longer admissible \because it is unreliable\

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