Commonwealth v. Marini

How courts have described this case

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

• error not harmless beyond reasonable doubt despite admissible evidence that “would certainly have been enough to warrant a guilty verdict”
• “[I]t would be hard to say that the [error] was without effect on the jury and did not contribute to the verdict”
• “The law has not taken the position that a juiy can be relied on to discount the value of an identification by a proper appraisal of the unsatisfactory circumstances in which it may have been made”
• “ [o]ne-on-one auditions ought certainly to be avoided”
• three full confessions by defendant

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).