Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 4/15/1999

Commonwealth v. Reynolds

Citations

429 Mass. 388
708 N.E.2d 658
1999 Mass. LEXIS 144

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setting out factors to be considered in reviewing exclusion of an undisclosed witness
informants' statements relayed from one officer to another not inadmissible layered hearsay under Bowden
“bare statement that [a third party] and the victim dealt drugs together lacks probative quality and would merely mislead the jury”
informants’ tips not offered for truth of matter but to show lack of police investigation
\[Bad faith] means a breach of a known duty through some motive of interest or ill will\
individual who has not entered into agreement with government or who reports incriminating evidence to police out of conscience not acting as government agent [quotation and citation omitted]

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Judges: Abrams

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