Marion Diagnostic Center, LLC v. Becton Dickinson & Company

How courts have described this case

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• holding witness’s alleged wearing of sunglasses would not have violated “face to face” confrontation under the Massachusetts constitution
• erroneous instruction, read in context of otherwise correct charge, would not have been misunderstood by jurors
• “It is significant that no affidavit from trial counsel was submitted in connection with [the defendant’s] motion for a new trial”
• “[I]t is significant that no affidavit from trial counsel was submitted in connection” with the motion for new trial
• defendant’s “self-serving affidavit and the affidavit from appellate counsel failed to establish a prima facie case for relief and, therefore, for postconviction discovery”
• two incorrect instructions and two correct instructions on voluntary manslaughter did not create substantial likelihood of miscarriage of justice where judge \repeatedly emphasized\ proper burden of proof throughout

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).