Massachusetts Appeals Court· 10/20/1975

Commonwealth v. Underwood

Citations

335 N.E.2d 915
3 Mass. App. Ct. 522
1975 Mass. App. LEXIS 674

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stating that allegations that witnesses were deceased “should have been supported either by affidavits or by evidence introduced at the time the motions to dismiss were argued”
time period in which defendant was “fugitive from justice” “must be excluded in any consideration of the delay in bringing the defendant to trial”
while defendant need not keep Commonwealth informed of his whereabouts, \[he] cannot expect his whereabouts to be quickly ascertained when he has been a fugitive from justice\

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Judges: Rose, Grant, Armstrong

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