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Commonwealth v. Miller

Citations

  • 457 Mass. 69
  • 927 N.E.2d 999
  • 2010 Mass. LEXIS 303

How courts have described this case

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

  • “[W]e consider the jury charge as a whole, looking for the interpretation a reasonable juror would place on the judge’s words” [quotations and citation omitted]
  • instruction that \jurors' collective memory should control\ mitigated prosecutor's error in closing argument
  • In a prosecutor’s closing argument, ‘“while the statement should not have been made, the defendant was not deprived of a fair trial. . . . Again, there was no objection by the defendant’s trial counsel, suggesting that the tone of the remark was not a call to arms”

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