Commonwealth v. Martin

How courts have described this case

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

• prosecution’s repeated, gratuitous use of defendant’s alias, including comment in closing argument, “How can you trust somebody who has two names at the outset?” was improper and required reversal of defendant’s conviction
• prosecutor's improper references to defendant's aliases created substantial risk of miscarriage of justice

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Dyer
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2011-10-13· cited 32×
• Holloman v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 2005-02-28· cited 11×
• Commonwealth v. Reeder
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2009-02-26· cited 2×
• Commonwealth v. Rodriguez
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2009-05-18· cited 2×
• Commonwealth v. Burns
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2017-11-17

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Helfant
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1986-08-13· cited 274×
• Commonwealth v. LeFave
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1999-08-18· cited 138×
• Commonwealth v. Sheline
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1984-02-24· cited 101×
• Commonwealth v. Carter
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1996-08-13· cited 36×
• Commonwealth v. McClendon
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1995-08-18· cited 18×
• Commonwealth v. Martin
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2003-01-31· cited 4×
• Commonwealth v. Durango
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1999-06-24· cited 3×