· 8/13/1993
Commonwealth v. Quegan
Citations
- 617 N.E.2d 651
- 35 Mass. App. Ct. 129
- 1993 Mass. App. LEXIS 814
How courts have described this case
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- no abuse of discretion in excluding evidence of bias of fresh complaint witness because witness’s credibility was not a critical issue at trial
- jury “had to have been acutely aware of [the witness’s] animosity toward the man” who, she believed, had molested her granddaughter
- no basis for finding relevance of excluded evidence “beyond tenuous, speculative assertion”
- no logical nexus for relevance of excluded evidence
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Judges: Perretta, Greenberg, Laurence
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