HSBC Bank USA, N.A. v. Somalingam

How courts have described this case

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• finding no error where codefendant’s statement did not identify defendant as shooter, nor claim to place him at crime scene
• photographs selected by witness from array properly admitted where defendant argued that witness may not have seen perpetrator well enough to make reliable identification
• severance not required in part because both defendants shared common approach of “vigorously attacking] the credibility” of eyewitness
• party may not call witness who he knows beforehand will not offer relevant testimony solely for purpose of impeaching witness
• “this was not a case where each defendant was pitted against the other or sought to escape conviction by blaming his codefendant”
• evidence sufficient to raise defense of self-defense and provocation puts burden on Commonwealth of disproving them beyond a reasonable doubt

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).