Commonwealth v. Marquetty

How courts have described this case

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

• “we assume that the jury have a reasonable measure of sophistication and are capable of sorting out hyperbole”
• no substantial likelihood of miscarriage of justice in admitting testimony that large hunting knife, not alleged to be murder weapon, was found in defendant’s vehicle
• no substantial risk of miscarriage of justice when weapon alluded to only briefly during testimony
• “counsel must be careful to avoid misstating principles of law, infringing or denigrating constitutional rights, and provoking undue sympathy or bias”
• prejudicial errors related to collateral issues does not require reversal

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).