Commonwealth v. Santos

How courts have described this case

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

• testimony that police officers used racial and misogynistic epithets to provoke fight was relevant to who created disturbance in prosecution for disturbing peace
• \We need not reach the [remaining] issue because we reverse the convictions on the evidentiary error\
• improper exclusion of use of racial and misogynistic epithets by police in prosecution \which turned entirely on witness credibility . . . may have had a substantial impact on the jury's assessment of witnesses critical to the defense\
• prejudicial error where judge erroneously excluded most compelling evidence of self-defense

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• COMMONWEALTH v. MICHAEL RODRIGUEZ.
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2022-07-27· cited 3×
• Commonwealth v. Hinds
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2021-04-20
• Commonwealth v. Rebeiro
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2018-12-05
• Commonwealth v. Correia
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2023-06-12
• Commonwealth v. White
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2024-01-09
• Commonwealth v. James Souza
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2024-10-01

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Flebotte
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1994-03-21· cited 396×
• Commonwealth v. Peruzzi
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1983-03-10· cited 188×
• Commonwealth v. Drew
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1986-03-12· cited 106×
• Commonwealth v. Rembiszewski
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1984-02-10· cited 78×
• Commonwealth v. Conkey
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2004-12-16· cited 56×