Commonwealth v. Spiewak

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that the rape shield law “cannot be both shield and sword”
• “Notwithstanding these worthy legislative aims, rules excluding evidence cannot be mechanistically applied to abridge a defendant’s right of confrontation by denying admission of highly reliable and relevant evidence critical to his defense.”
• “[e]vidence if relevant if it logically tends to establish a material fact in the case, tends to make a fact at issue more or less probable, or supports a reasonable inference or presumption regarding the existence of a material fact”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).