Commonwealth v. Mahoney

How courts have described this case

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

• severance not required in part because two codefendants shared “common approach” of blaming third person for crime
• proposition that “defendants should have known as vicious beating progressed that victim could suffer death”
• jurors’ disregard of judge’s instructions that they not discuss case except during deliberations is not extraneous influence in absence of facts that discussions involved matters not in evidence
• judge should consider “whether the witness has sufficient skill, knowledge, and experience in the area of his training”
• sufficient evidence of malice based on plain and strong likelihood of death, where reasonable person would have known that victim could suffer death as beating progressed
• for proposition that “defendants should have known as vicious beating progressed that victim could suffer death”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).