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Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 8/10/2007

Commonwealth v. Saletino

Citations

  • 449 Mass. 657
  • 871 N.E.2d 455
  • 2007 Mass. LEXIS 588

How courts have described this case

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

  • \[missing witness] instruction should not be given where the Commonwealth has legitimate tactical reasons for not calling the witness\
  • missing witness instruction “should not be given where the Commonwealth has legitimate tactical reasons for not calling the witness”
  • defendant drove a car with Rhode Island plates when selling cocaine to an undercover officer in Lynn
  • \[s]uch an instruction should not be given where the Commonwealth has legitimate tactical reasons for not calling the witness\
  • “decision whether to provide a missing witness instruction to the jury is within the discretion of the trial judge, and will not be reversed unless the decision was manifestly unreasonable”
  • Commonwealth had \logical tactical reasons\ for not calling informant witness where defense counsel indicated his intent to impeach witness with prior convictions and judge stated impeachment evidence would be admissible

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Judges: Ireland

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Cites

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Other cases named Commonwealth v. Saletino

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