Commonwealth v. Parente

How courts have described this case

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

• prosecutor reference to defense raising “red herrings” and “phony issues” found to constitute fair response to defense arguments
• prosecutor properly commented on appellant’s demeanor on the witness stand which readily was apparent to the jurors
• prosecutor properly commented on appellant's demeanor on the witness stand which readily was apparent to the jurors
• “[T]he reference of the prosecution to the arrogance of appellant was not reversible error in that this comment referred solely to the demeanor of appellant on the stand.”
• \[T]he reference of the prosecution to the arrogance of appellant was not reversible error in that this comment referred solely to the demeanor of appellant on the stand.\
• continuance rather than striking victim’s .testimony was the proper remedy where the prosecutor faded to provide defendant with police officer’s notes of victim’s statement prior to trial and the notes were inadvertently lost on the first day of trial

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).