Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2/2/1977

Commonwealth v. Turner

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359 N.E.2d 626
371 Mass. 803
1977 Mass. LEXIS 844

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store clerk's testimony, ballistic evidence, and nature of victim's wounds corroborated immunized witnesses' accounts of crimes
witness's testimony concerning defendant's height corroborated immunized witnesses' identification of defendant
prosecution’s witnesses’ claim of the privilege against self incrimination in response to questions about their involvement in prior uncharged crimes was allowed because impeaching the witnesses based on prior bad acts unrelated to the case at hand is unlawful
grand jury testimony as waiver of privilege
person appeared to be “very nervous”

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Judges: Hennessey, Quirico, Kaplan, Wilkins

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