Fields v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

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5 state decisions

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1. “The indictment could and should have been amended at the conclusion of the testimony, but it cannot reasonably be held that a failure in that respect affected the defendant's substantial rights.”). As we recently held in an analogous unpublished case, an instruction permitting a jury to find a defendant guilty under an alternative theory not contained in the indictment was not a palpable error because the jury instruction”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Commonwealth v. Combs