Massachusetts Appeals Court· 12/6/1993

Commonwealth v. Payton

Citations

623 N.E.2d 1127
35 Mass. App. Ct. 586
1993 Mass. App. LEXIS 1096

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noting when mugshot is probative for defendant’s purpose of questioning identification, it was proper not to sanitize mugshot
“Any decision involving the introduction in evidence of mug shots depends on the circumstances present in the case”
where the dates on the photographs were later than the date of the offenses for which the defendant was on trial, no suggestion that the defendant had a prior record
unsanitized mugshots properly admitted where ■it was “clear from the record that part of the trial counsel’s strategy was to attack the photographic identifications by showing that the array was so suggestive as to lead the identifying witness[] to make faulty identifications”

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Judges: Smith, Porada, Laurence

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