Commonwealth v. Sena

How courts have described this case

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

• suggesting that a judge’s failure to give a promised jury charge, where the defendant relied on that promise in formulating trial strategy, may be reversible error
• judge gave a “clear signal” that he would deliver the proposed instruction but did not do so; judge’s incorrect statement of the law required reversal

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Simcock
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1991-08-06· cited 24×
• Commonwealth v. Calcagno
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1991-07-05· cited 20×
• Commonwealth v. Smith
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2000-08-11· cited 14×
• Commonwealth v. Adams
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1993-05-24· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. Urban
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2006-09-11· cited 5×
• Commonwealth v. Resendes
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1991-04-05· cited 4×
• Commonwealth v. Crawford
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1999-03-08· cited 4×
• Commonwealth v. Anderson
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1991-04-23· cited 1×

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Sparf v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1895-01-21· cited 757×
• Commonwealth v. Zagranski
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1990-08-13· cited 74×
• Commonwealth v. SCHATVEN
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1986-11-12· cited 67×
• Commonwealth v. Bryer
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1986-07-10· cited 46×
• Commonwealth v. Corcione
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1974-02-15· cited 40×
• Commonwealth v. Vasquez
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1989-08-09· cited 31×
• Commonwealth v. Fulgham
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1987-01-20· cited 16×