Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 11/4/1999

Commonwealth v. Pike

Citations

430 Mass. 317
718 N.E.2d 855
1999 Mass. LEXIS 670

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upholding dispensing convictions where evidence showed prescription written in violation of § 19
although “evidence contradicted, and tended to undermine ... the Commonwealth’s case,” it did not demonstrate that Commonwealth’s evidence was “conclusively incorrect”
psychiatrist indicted and convicted under G. L. c. 94C, § 19, as well as drug statutes
deterioration occurs when Commonwealth’s evidence shown to be incredible or conclusively incorrect
deterioration occurs when Commonwealth’s evidence shown to be incredible or conclusively incorrect
‘Testimony about [drug diversion] operations ... is helpful to the fact finders and is admissible [because] it is more akin to a description of the modus operandi of [drug diverters] than a ‘profile’ of a drug dealer”

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