Commonwealth v. Paszko

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that criminal procedure rules favoring liberal discovery serves a truth-enhancing purpose that outweigh “any resulting inconvenience or potential disincentive to lawyers who obtain and preserve such statements in written form”
• applying prospectively an extension to admissions of the \humane practice\ non-constitutional requirement that a jury be instructed to disregard defendant's statement to cellmates if jury determines that the statement is involuntary
• the “better practice” is to treat statements to private citizens as if they were statements to the police
• no unconstitutional suggestiveness when photographs are substantially different and witness made identification from more recent photograph
• no unconstitutional suggestiveness when photographs are substantially different and witness made identification from more recent photograph
• retroactivity analysis triggered by question whether to apply \humane practice\ rule to admissions as well as to confessions

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).