Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 4/10/2000

Commonwealth v. Martinez

Citations

431 Mass. 168
726 N.E.2d 913
2000 Mass. LEXIS 166

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noting that it was “improper” to ask the defendant to testify as to the credibility of other witnesses when the prosecutor asked the defendant whether a witness was lying
applying Person rule one month after Portuondo v. Agard, supra, was decided, but finding error did not require new trial
testimony that defendant invoked right to counsel permissible to explain abrupt end of interview, so long as not used as evidence of defendant's guilt
error to permit witness’s testimony that she had been threatened because prejudicial effect of that testimony outweighed its probative value
where prejudicial effect outweighed probative value, admission of threat testimony was error, but not prejudicial
statement regarding color of defendant’s gun, by declarant who knew that defendant possessed silver gun and saw him shoot victim with it, was properly admitted

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