Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 12/28/1999

Commonwealth v. McAfee

Citations

430 Mass. 483
722 N.E.2d 1
1999 Mass. LEXIS 695

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finding no error where codefendant’s statement did not identify defendant as shooter, nor claim to place him at crime scene
photographs selected by witness from array properly admitted where defendant argued that witness may not have seen perpetrator well enough to make reliable identification
severance not required in part because both defendants shared common approach of “vigorously attacking] the credibility” of eyewitness
party may not call witness who he knows beforehand will not offer relevant testimony solely for purpose of impeaching witness
“this was not a case where each defendant was pitted against the other or sought to escape conviction by blaming his codefendant”
evidence sufficient to raise defense of self-defense and provocation puts burden on Commonwealth of disproving them beyond a reasonable doubt

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Judges: Lynch

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