Commonwealth v. Luciano’s Empirical Analysis
2011
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
November 2017
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Britt v. North Carolina · Commonwealth v. Saferian · Commonwealth v. Randolph · Commonwealth v. Zanetti · Commonwealth v. Avila
Most-quoted passages
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“in view of the judge's thorough instructions as to the jury's function, the presumption of innocence, and the Commonwealth's obligation to prove the defendants' guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, we are confident that the jury would not have understood the officer's testimony that, at the time, he believed that the lesser probable cause standard [to arrest] had been met, as supplanting their responsibility as fact finders”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“was an impermissible comment on the defendants' guilt; it was an explanation of the officer's actions, elicited to counteract the defendants' claim from the inception of the trial that the police investigation was inadequate and misdirected”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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