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- Title: Commonwealth v. Robert B. Haraldstad (And
- Author : Appeals Court of Massachusetts
- Release Date : January 25, 1983
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 65 KB
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Comments made by the prosecutor at a rape trial in closing argument, in which he exploited the failure of an expert witness testifying for the defense to give a definite opinion favorable to the defense, required reversal of the convictions where the witness's failure to give a definite opinion on direct examination resulted from a misunderstanding and defense counsel was prevented from clarifying the matter on redirect examination by the prosecutor's objection. [566-568] At a rape trial, the effect of improper argument by the prosecutor, interpreting an equivocal statement by the defendant as an absolute denial of his presence in the town where the crime had been committed, was compounded by the Judge's instructions, which assumed the existence of testimony supporting the prosecutor's interpretation. [569-570]