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Commonwealth v. O'MALLEY

Citations

  • 439 N.E.2d 832
  • 14 Mass. App. Ct. 314
  • 1982 Mass. App. LEXIS 1429

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  • court rejected motion in limine to preclude duress defense in prison escape
  • “In the usual case, therefore, it is far more prudent for the judge to follow the traditional, and constitutionally sounder, course of waiting until all the evidence has been introduced at trial before ruling on its sufficiency to raise a proffered defense”

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Judges: Armstrong, Rose, Greaney

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