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Commonwealth v. Vasquez

Citations

  • 130 N.E.3d 174
  • 482 Mass. 850

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that police had “good reason” to have victim’s family members attempt to identify person in surveillance footage where no eyewitnesses could do so
  • noting that relevance of expert testimony on potential inaccuracy of eyewitness identification varies based on facts of case
  • eyewitness unfamiliar with suspect would likely be unable to make identification based on poor quality video
  • witnesses had long relationship with defendant as basis for video identification

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Gants, Lenk, Gaziano, Lowy, Budd, Cypher, Kafker

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