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· 7/23/1985

Commonwealth v. McWhinney

Citations

  • 480 N.E.2d 656
  • 20 Mass. App. Ct. 444
  • 1985 Mass. App. LEXIS 1876

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  • The Commonwealth has no burden to show the sufficiency of a reconstruction of trial proceedings in the absence of stenographic notes, which had been stolen, until “the defendant has come forward with an articulable claim” of reversible trial error.

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Judges: Greaney, Brown, Warner

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