· 8/16/1994
Commonwealth v. Rather
Citations
- 638 N.E.2d 915
- 37 Mass. App. Ct. 140
- 1994 Mass. App. LEXIS 766
How courts have described this case
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- holding the error harmless due to eyewitness corroboration of the victims' testimony
- impermissible endorsement of victims' credibility harmless where \various aspects of the victims' testimony were corroborated by other witnesses\
- improper for witness who evaluated victims to testify first about their specific behaviors, then about general truthfulness of hypothetical victims similar to actual victims, but error harmless
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Judges: Smith, Kaplan, Ireland
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