Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Fordham
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided February 8, 1994PublishedCited by 66 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtO’Connor, J.
The defendant appeals from his conviction of the murder in the first degree of his wife, Lisa Fordham, following a trial by jury. He argues that the trial judge erred by suspending at 3:15 p.m. until the next day the cross-examination of a principal Commonwealth witness, the defendant’s son, Robert, just as the witness “began to recant . . . the damning testimony that he had given on direct.” The defendant also argues that unfounded inflammatory accusations contained in the prosecutor’s leading questions on cross-examination of the defendant, and presented again in the prosecutor’s closing…
2Cases cited18 opinions
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- Commonwealth v. YoungMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1981
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3Cited by66 opinions
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