· 6/3/1985
Commonwealth v. Piedra
Citations
- 478 N.E.2d 1284
- 20 Mass. App. Ct. 155
- 1985 Mass. App. LEXIS 1781
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- testimony of fractious rift between witness and defendant not the equivalent of a specific inquiry about the witness’s motive to accuse the defendant
- witness whose bias defendant sought to show was “the key prosecution witness,” whose “credibility . . . was ‘essential to the proof of the defendant’s guilt’ ”
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Judges: Greaney, Armstrong, Brown
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