Massachusetts Appeals Court· 4/6/2010
Commonwealth v. Pittman
Citations
- 76 Mass. App. Ct. 905
- 923 N.E.2d 1083
- 2010 Mass. App. LEXIS 413
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- testifying expert identified spent casing introduced in evidence “as the one returned to the local police after ballistics testing was performed on the gun”
- court finds error in admitting ballistics certificate without testimony to be “harmless beyond a reasonable doubt” in light of “overwhelming evidence independent of the ballistics certificate that the gun in question was operable”
- where officer identified spent casing as one returned to police after ballistics testing was performed on gun — even though he did not personally check weapon — his testimony regarding ballistics analysis allowed jury to infer that gun fired when tested
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Cited by
6 cases in this archive cite this case.
- Commonwealth v. RamseyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2013-09-27· cited 11×
- Commonwealth v. BarbosaMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2012-01-31· cited 7×
- Commonwealth v. RamseyMassachusetts Appeals Court· 2011-06-28· cited 4×
- Commonwealth v. BarbosaMassachusetts Appeals Court· 2010-08-11· cited 3×
- Silva v. RodenD. Massachusetts· 2014-09-29· cited 3×
- Commonwealth v. JonesMassachusetts Appeals Court· 2010-06-18· cited 2×
Cites
10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.
- Melendez-Diaz v. MassachusettsSupreme Court· 2009-06-25· cited 2,882×
- Commonwealth v. RandolphMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2002-12-19· cited 273×
- Commonwealth v. SellonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1980-03-25· cited 167×
- Commonwealth v. VasquezMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2010-03-26· cited 127×
- Commonwealth v. TyreeMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2010-01-08· cited 126×
- Commonwealth v. DepinaMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2010-03-10· cited 52×
- Commonwealth v. MunizMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2010-03-02· cited 25×
- Commonwealth v. HollisterMassachusetts Appeals Court· 2009-11-17· cited 18×
- Commonwealth v. BrownMassachusetts Appeals Court· 2009-10-08· cited 9×
- Commonwealth v. CheryMassachusetts Appeals Court· 2009-10-27· cited 2×
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