Commonwealth v. St. Germain

How courts have described this case

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• rejecting claim of prejudice from delayed disclosure of witness’s pretrial statement, because defense counsel’s decision not to recall witness appeared to be tactical choice
• including within description of participating police those “who either regularly report or with reference to the particular case have reported to [prosecutor’s] office” (citation omitted)
• \prosecuting attorneys [should] become accustomed to disclosing all material [that] is even possibly exculpatory\
• adopting language from an A.B.A. commentary on a proposed standard for criminal justice
• interpreting a state court rule authorizing note-taking during closing arguments and the judge’s instructions
• “resolution of the question whether evidence of motive is more probative than prejudicial lies within the sound discretion of the trial judge”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).