Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 6/13/2011

Commonwealth v. Lao

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460 Mass. 12
948 N.E.2d 1209
2011 Mass. LEXIS 439

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we have stated on many occasions that judge is not required to instruct on claimed inadequacy of police investigation under Bowden
circumstantial evidence in prosecution of murder in first degree was sufficient to warrant jury’s conclusion that defendant killed his estranged wife
“the inferences a jury may draw from the evidence ‘need only be reasonable and possible and need not be necessary or inescapable’ ”
we have previously determined that protections under art. 12 are \coextensive with the guarantees of the Sixth Amendment\
\A conviction may not rest on the piling of inference upon inference or on conjecture and speculation\
\a judge is not required to instruct on the claimed inadequacy of a police investigation. ' Bowden simply holds that a judge may not remove the issue from the jury's consideration' \

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