Commonwealth v. Sevieri

How courts have described this case

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

• evidence that \defendant dragged the struggling victim back to her bedroom and attempted to throw her on her bed\ relevant to finding intent to rape
• to deny a sequestration motion as a matter of practice rather than for reasons related to the particular case presents unnecessary problems on appeal
• “Do you really want to go home tonight and tell your family . . . ?”
• “we see a distinction between the general public and witnesses when encouraging attendance throughout trials”
• “we see a distinction between the general public and witnesses when encouraging attendance throughout trials”
• suggestive behavior prior to alleged rape probative of defendant’s state of mind

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).