Commonwealth v. Vuthy Seng

How courts have described this case

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

• \ 'The CSI effect' is a subject beyond the permissible scope of judicial notice\
• when defendant offers victim’s prior inconsistent statements “the Commonwealth is permitted to rehabilitate the witness by asking questions designed to explain or contradict the inconsistency even though prior consistent statements by the witness are implicated”
• “[T]he judge acted properly when he cautioned the jury about the relevance of ‘CSI’ after it was referenced in testimony, but it was undesirable for him to do so again in his jury instructions.”
• “[T]he ‘CSI effect’ may be largely speculative.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).