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· 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’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Greaney, Armstrong, Brown

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