Commonwealth v. Woody’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. ““Since insufficient evidence to support a conviction always presents a substantial risk of a miscarriage of justice, the Commonwealth would be well advised in any case in which the claim is made in the defendant’s brief that there is insufficient evidence to support the conviction not to resist that argument on the basis that the defendant has failed in his or her duty to present an adequate record. Rather than oppose the appeal on the ground that the record is inadequate, in the interest of justice —• particularly when the defendant is incarcerated — and in the interest of efficiency, the Commonwealth itself should initiate the procedure for settling the record under [Mass. R. A. R] 8.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Commonwealth v. Woody