Commonwealth v. Lykus

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the FBI’s knowledge of favorable evidence could be imputed to state prosecutors
• reversing lower court’s grant of new trial, finding Lykus’s “effort to minimize the vast body of circumstantial evidence as ‘equivocal at best,’ . . . totally unpersuasive,” including CBLA testimony
• where motion judge was not trial judge and took no evidence, review on appeal is de novo
• “[In] deciding] whether the new evidence probably would have been a real factor in the jury’s deliberations, ... the judge must consider the strength of the case against the defendant”
• evidence cumulative of that \admitted at the trial will carry little weight\
• nondisclosure does not warrant new trial where case against defendant overwhelming

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

31 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Commonwealth v. Wright
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2014-08-20· cited 88×
• Commonwealth v. Clemente
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2008-09-05· cited 66×
• Glendale More Jr. v. State of Iowa
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2016-05-20· cited 51×
• Commonwealth v. Ayala
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2018-12-06· cited 46×
• Skakel v. State
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2010-04-20· cited 37×
• Commonwealth v. Imbert
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2018-05-18· cited 34×
• Commonwealth v. Dyer
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2011-10-13· cited 32×
• Commonwealth v. Bonnett
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2015-09-24· cited 29×
• Commonwealth v. Baran
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2009-05-15· cited 28×
• Commonwealth v. Ferreira
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2019-03-18· cited 24×
• Liability Investigative Fund Effort, Inc. v. Massachusetts Medical Professional Insurance
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1994-07-21· cited 23×
• Commonwealth v. Ware
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2015-04-08· cited 20×
• Diallo v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2010-05-10· cited 19×
• Commonwealth v. Sanchez
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2017-04-05· cited 16×
• Commonwealth v. Barry
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2019-02-12· cited 16×
• Commonwealth v. Amaral
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2019-04-05· cited 16×
• Commonwealth v. Caruso
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2014-02-28· cited 7×
• Murphy v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2009-12-30· cited 5×
• Diallo v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2009-06-04· cited 5×
• Commonwealth v. Gaston
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2014-10-31· cited 5×

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• United States v. Agurs
  Supreme Court· 1976-06-24· cited 6,537×
• Kyles v. Whitley
  Supreme Court· 1995-04-19· cited 6,003×
• Commonwealth v. Grace
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1986-04-15· cited 371×
• Commonwealth v. Tucceri
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1992-04-09· cited 145×
• Commonwealth v. Ellison
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1978-07-18· cited 140×
• Commonwealth v. Martin
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1998-07-15· cited 117×
• Commonwealth v. Lykus
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1975-03-27· cited 85×
• Abraham v. City of Woburn
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1981-06-05· cited 55×
• Commonwealth v. Adrey
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1978-12-04· cited 51×
• Commonwealth v. Gallarelli
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1987-01-12· cited 49×
• Commonwealth v. Beal
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1999-05-05· cited 42×
• Commonwealth v. Liebman
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1980-01-31· cited 37×
• Commonwealth v. Liebman
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1983-03-16· cited 26×
• Commonwealth v. Donahue
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1986-01-21· cited 25×