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· 8/2/1979

Commonwealth v. Napolitano

Citations

  • 393 N.E.2d 338
  • 378 Mass. 599
  • 1979 Mass. LEXIS 886

How courts have described this case

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

  • officer’s statement that police had “someone here who fits” description not unnecessarily suggestive but merely states purpose of showing photographs to witness
  • police not required to limit array to pictures of heavy men with beards, and array was fair where only three of forty-four photographs depicted heavy men with scraggly beards, a description of the assailant
  • only three of forty-four photos depicted heavyset men with scraggly beards

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Hennessey, Quirico, Kaplan, Liacos, Abrams

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