Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 7/21/1997

Commonwealth v. Seabrooks

Citations

425 Mass. 507
681 N.E.2d 1198
1997 Mass. LEXIS 179

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“Allowing hearsay statements generally under the state-of-mind exception would entirely eviscerate the hearsay rule and its important purpose of securing the correctness and completeness of testimony through cross-examination”
\Allowing hearsay statements generally under the state-of-mind exception would entirely eviscerate the hearsay rule and its important purpose of securing the correctness and completeness of testimony through cross-examination\
victim’s statement describing her “fear of the defendant. . . should not have been admitted”
error in murder case in which critical issue was degree of defendant’s culpability to permit witness to testify to victim’s statement about prior injuries defendant had inflicted on her
once evidence is admitted at trial which, if believed, might create a reasonable doubt concerning the defendant’s criminal responsi bility at the time of the crime, an instmction on insanity is warranted
evidence was insufficient to warrant an insanity instruction

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Judges: Abrams

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