Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2/3/1981

Commonwealth v. Young

Citations

416 N.E.2d 944
382 Mass. 448
1981 Mass. LEXIS 1085

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balancing probative and prejudicial value of evidence an issue on which the opinion of trial judge will be accepted except for palpable error
concluding “[t]he officers were in the midst of a very hectic scene, and their response is ‘to be evaluated in relation to the scene as it could appear to the officers at the time, not as it may seem to a scholar after the event with the benefit of leisured retrospective analysis’ ”
\Exigencies which may justify a procedure without warrant are a narrow category and must be established by the Commonwealth . . .\
prior bad act evidence admissible to show full picture of entire relationship between defendant and victim
\Exigencies which may justify a procedure * without warrant are a narrow category and must be established by the Commonwealth ...\
at murder trial, “[i]t was well for the jury to have a view of the entire relationship between the defendant and . . . the alleged victims”

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Judges: Hennessey, Quirico, Kaplan, Liacos, Abrams

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