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· 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

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • 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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