Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 8/21/1980

Commonwealth v. Shelley

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409 N.E.2d 732
381 Mass. 340
1980 Mass. LEXIS 1281

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rejecting defendant's insanity defense because, although experts testified that his consumption of one to nine beers may have facilitated his dissociative state without necessarily causing it, there was no evidence that his voluntary use of alcohol activated latent mental disease
fact finder is \not obliged to believe the testimony of any of the expert witnesses\
dissociative state brought on by the defendant’s “borderline personality . . . disorder”
“The jury need not accept uhcontradicted expert testimony that the defendant was insane at the time of the murder”
“Collective questioning on sensitive issues may not elicit a response from some jurors who would respond in private”
homosexuality might constitute a class under G. L. c. 234, § 28, second par.

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