Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Johnson
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided January 12, 2015No. SJC 11567PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtGants, C.J.
In Commonwealth v. Franklin, 465 Mass. 895, 912 (2013), we recognized “that eyewitness identification may be an important issue at trial even where no eyewitness made a positive identification of the defendant as the perpetrator, but where eyewitnesses have provided a physical description of the perpetrator or his clothing, or have identified a photograph in an array as someone who looks like the perpetrator,” and we declared that, “where requested by the defendant, a judge should provide specific guidance to the jury regarding the evaluation of such eyewitness testimony through some…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Commonwealth v. RodriguezMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1979
- Commonwealth v. Silva-SantiagoMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2009
- Commonwealth v. JohnsonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1995
- Commonwealth v. CruzMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2005
- Commonwealth v. JonesMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1996
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3Cited by8 opinions
- Smiley v. StateCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 2015
- Commonwealth v. BryantMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2019
- Commonwealth v. SnyderMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2016
- Commonwealth v. NavarroMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2016
- Commonwealth v. FisherMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2023
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