Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 5/1/1970

Commonwealth v. Redmond

Citations

258 N.E.2d 287
357 Mass. 333
1970 Mass. LEXIS 829

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defendant has right to have his entire relationship with witness brought to attention of jury
generally inadmissible evidence of prior criminal conduct held admissible to show bias
generally inadmissible evidence of prior criminal conduct held admissible to show bias
Commonwealth had the right to bring out the relationship between defendant and an alibi witness, even though the evidence indicated that defendant may have committed another crime
“Once the trial judge gave an adequate and accurate charge on the Commonwealth’s burden of proof, ‘he was not required to repeat the same instruction with each of the other subjects discussed in the remainder of the charge’”
evidence that defendant testified at prior trial of his alibi witness that contraband that was subject of criminal complaint against alibi witness belonged to defendant, relevant to show motive of alibi witness to testify favorably for defendant

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Judges: Wilkins, Spalding, Kirk, Spiegel, Quirico

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