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Commonwealth v. Baldwin’s Empirical Analysis

2011

Citation profile

1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
December 2012
most recently cited

1 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on United States of America v. Henry Peterson

Most-quoted passages

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  1. “Whether the test employed in United States v. Peterson, 233 F.3d 101 (1st Cir.2000), adopted by the Superior Court in this case, to be utilized when a criminal defendant seeks to testify after the close of evidence, is an unconstitutional burden on a citizen’s fundamental right to testify in his own defense?”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority

How this case has been treated — in progress

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