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Commonwealth v. Mezzanotti

Citations

  • 529 N.E.2d 1351
  • 26 Mass. App. Ct. 522
  • 1988 Mass. App. LEXIS 641

How courts have described this case

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

  • “Excluded from that concept [of malice] are acts that are lawful or the result of an accident or mistake.”
  • \Excluded from that concept [of malice] are acts that are lawful or the result of an accident or mistake.\
  • “a voice identification may be considered by a jury as long as the witness expresses some basic familiarity with the voice he or she claims to identify”
  • \a voice identification may be considered by a jury as long as the witness expresses some basic familiarity with the voice he or she claims to identify\
  • \[A] voice identification may be considered by a jury as long as the witness expresses some basic familiarity with the voice he or she claims to identify\
  • alleged error in malice instruction did not present substantial risk of a miscarriage of justice where \there was no serious dispute\ that the arson was \purposeful and intended to cause substantial destruction to the building\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Greaney, Greanby, Perretta, Warner

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