Commonwealth v. Lyons

How courts have described this case

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

• recording of 911 telephone call properly admitted as complainant’s first complaint evidence; admission of police officer’s “live” testimony in addition to 911 tape recording constituted error
• multiple complaints without contemporaneous first complaint instruction plus another error created substantial risk of miscarriage of justice
• subsequent complaint to officer at scene was inadmissible, as first complaint was 911 call

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

4 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. McCoy
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2010-05-20· cited 89×
• Commonwealth v. Arana
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2009-02-13· cited 81×
• Commonwealth v. Dargon
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2009-05-29· cited 6×
• COMMONWEALTH v. RUBIN HOLGUIN, JR.
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2022-06-30· cited 3×

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Flebotte
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1994-03-21· cited 396×
• Commonwealth v. King
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2005-09-29· cited 211×
• Commonwealth v. Peruzzi
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1983-03-10· cited 188×
• Commonwealth v. Pike
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1998-11-19· cited 135×
• Commonwealth v. Licata
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1992-05-15· cited 126×
• Commonwealth v. Stuckich
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2008-01-16· cited 108×
• Commonwealth v. Murungu
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2008-01-16· cited 41×
• Commonwealth v. Gilmore
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1987-04-23· cited 20×
• Commonwealth v. Thayer
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1985-06-19· cited 8×
• Commonwealth v. Holman
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2001-06-06· cited 6×