Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 9/11/2014

Commonwealth v. Wall

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469 Mass. 652
15 N.E.3d 708

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holding “the right to a public trial may be procedurally waived whenever a litigant fails to make a timely objection to an error[,]” and defense counsel could waive a public trial as a “tactical decision without the defendant’s express consent”
finding waiver “where . . . defendant failed to raise the claim in his first motion for a new trial”
second prong of ineffective assistance test not met where, inter alia, \weight of the evidence against the defendant was overwhelming\
hospital records are distinctively reliable, \because the entries relating to treatment and medical history are routinely made by those responsible for making accurate entries and are relied on in the course of treating patients\ [citation omitted]
“A procedural waiver may occur where the failure to object is inadvertent”
testimony that BAC of 0.21 per cent \very high\

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Judges: Ireland, Spina, Cordy, Gants, Dupply

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