Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 4/8/2011

Commonwealth v. Rogers

Citations

459 Mass. 249
945 N.E.2d 295
2011 Mass. LEXIS 161

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recognizing this point and collecting cases establishing it
declining to resolve the question whether an armed robber forfeits the right of self- defense in case where the defendant used a weapon only during the attempted escape
no error in admission of testimony based on autopsy photographs that constituted independently admissible evidence
“if the defendant engaged in the proper exercise of self-defense, there can be no verdict of murder”
'if the defendant engaged in the proper exercise of self-defense, there can be no verdict of murder'
error harmless where facts relative to cause of death introduced improperly by substitute medical examiner were cumulative of other evidence

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Judges: Cowin

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