Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 7/1/2003

Commonwealth v. Williams

Citations

439 Mass. 678
790 N.E.2d 662
2003 Mass. LEXIS 527

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declining to give Bowden instruction not error \because the giving of such an instruction is never required\
instruction on adequacy of police investigation “is never required. In other words, there is no Bowden instruction”
grand jury possess “broad powers to ‘inquire into all information that might possibly bear on [their] investigation’ ” [citation omitted]
affidavit of member of grand jury or prosecutor, or submission of grand jury testimony adequate
person from whom grand jury sought blood, hair, and saliva samples was suspect in murder
\There was no error because the giving of such an instruction 8 is never required\

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