Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 12/11/2003

Commonwealth v. Morales

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440 Mass. 536
800 N.E.2d 683
2003 Mass. LEXIS 895

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concluding that failure to move for a mistrial after inadvertent editorializing by a witness is not ineffective assistance
prosecutor could properly comment on defendant's failure to indicate he acted in self-defense in statement given to police
\failure to exhaust . . . peremptory challenges . . . belies any claim of juror partiality\
right to fair and impartial jury does not include right to jurors with no prior knowledge of case
trial counsel not ineffective for failing to move for mistrial where request would have been futile
claim of presumptive prejudice rejected where approximately twenty-five percent of venire was disqualified for exposure to media coverage

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Judges: Cowin

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