Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 3/12/1993

Commonwealth v. Owens

Citations

609 N.E.2d 1208
414 Mass. 595
1993 Mass. LEXIS 123

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declining to adopt per se rule of prejudice when defendant was excluded from examination of prospective jurors
failure to object to defendant’s exclusion from sidebar voir dire constitutes waiver; no prejudice shown
motor vehicle stop warranted by reasonable belief that registered owner, who had active warrant for his arrest, was driving vehicle
“Objectively viewing the evidence, [the detective] had probable cause to believe, absent any indication otherwise, that the driver of the automobile was also the owner.”
“Jury instructions must be construed as a whole to prevent isolated misstatements or omissions from constituting reversible error”
\Jury instructions must be construed as a whole to prevent isolated misstatements or omissions from constituting reversible error\

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Judges: Wilkins, Nolan, Lynch, Greaney

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