· 8/9/1979
Pisa v. Commonwealth
Citations
- 393 N.E.2d 386
- 378 Mass. 724
- 1979 Mass. LEXIS 895
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- “having participated in the preparation of the defendant’s case, [a lawyer] could not properly participate in the prosecution of the defendant”
- once a case has gone to judgment, whether an impropriety has resulted in prejudice becomes a relevant consideration
- “in [an attorney’s] representation of the original client, there should be no prospect that he [or she] might later be employed by a different client to uphold or upset what he [or she] had done”
Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).
Judges: Hennessey, Quirico, Braucher, Kaplan, Liacos
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