Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2/5/2002

Commonwealth v. Obershaw

Citations

435 Mass. 794
762 N.E.2d 276
2002 Mass. LEXIS 70

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no reversible error in admitting over eighty photographs, but cautioning judges that such quantity “likely to be cumulative”
statement that testimony of defendant was “an insult to the jury” was no more than “rhetorical flourish”
where defendant contested Commonwealth’s theory of events, proper to admit photographs to support Commonwealth’s account of how the murder took place
photographs of victim taken at crime scene and during autopsy relevant to show extreme atrocity or cruelty
no affirmative request where defendant asked whether he could speak with lawyer but declined use of telephone
photographs admissible where \[n]one of the photographs taken in the autopsy room showed the body in an altered state\

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Judges: Cowin

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