93 Mass. App. Ct. 225 - Commonwealth v. Galipeau’s Empirical Analysis
2018
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
February 2022
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Crayton · Commonwealth v. Silva-Santiago · Commonwealth v. Paszko · Commonwealth v. Walker · Commonwealth v. Lacy
Most-quoted passages
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“the procedures employed were so unnecessarily suggestive and conducive to irreparable misidentification as to deny the defendant due process of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Where an identification procedure is not impermissibly suggestive, a pretrial identification is admissible without any further showing”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[A]ny equivocation in [the witness's] initial identification went to the weight of the evidence, not its admissibility”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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