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Commonwealth v. James Andrews

Massachusetts Appeals Court

Decided June 16, 2025No. 24-P-430Published

1Opinion of the Court

APPEALS COURT

COMMONWEALTH vs. JAMES ANDREWS

Docket:

24-P-430

Dates:

February 4, 2025 – June 16, 2025

Present:

Ditkoff, Hand, & Walsh, JJ.

County:

Bristol

Keywords:

Homicide. Assault and Battery by Means of a Dangerous Weapon. Self-Defense. Jury and Jurors. Evidence, Self-defense, Verbal completeness, Hearsay, Photograph. Practice, Criminal, Instructions to jury, Jury and jurors, Examination of jurors, Challenge to jurors, Assistance of counsel, Argument by prosecutor, Verdict, Postconviction relief.

Indictments found and returned in the Superior Court Department on August 27, 2018.

The cases were tried…

2Cases cited42 opinions

  1. Chambers v. MississippiSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
  2. Commonwealth v. LatimoreMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1979
  3. Commonwealth v. MelloMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1995
  4. Commonwealth v. CraytonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2014
  5. Commonwealth v. WaldenMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1980

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