Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Saarela
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided November 30, 1978PublishedCited by 34 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtWilkins, J.
The defendant appeals from his conviction of murder in the second degree of one Robert G. Holt. We affirm the conviction.
The focus of the defendant’s argument on appeal is his claim that the trial judge improperly permitted the introduction of evidence of prior consistent statements made by one Paul Fernald, the only witness who identified the defendant as present at the scene of the crime. Fernald made several pretrial statements. In some, he identified the defendant as the person he saw at the scene, and in others he did not.
Fernald, who was eleven years old at the time of the victim’s…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Commonwealth v. ZukoskiMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1976
- Commonwealth v. GiacomazzaMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1942
- Commonwealth v. LacyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1976
- Commonwealth v. McKayMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1973
- Commonwealth v. RetkovitzMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1915
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3Cited by34 opinions
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