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- Title: Commonwealth v. Richard F. Jackson
- Author : Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts
- Release Date : January 18, 1994
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 69 KB
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Evidence, Prior misconduct, Relevancy and materiality. Homicide. Malice. Kidnapping. Practice, Criminal, Required finding, Capital case. LIACOS, C.J. The defendant appeals from his convictions of murder in the first degree and kidnapping. As grounds for reversal, the defendant argues that the trial Judge erred in allowing the admission of evidence of a prior bad act offered for identification purposes. The defendant also argues that the evidence was insufficient to support the guilty verdicts, and that his motion for required findings of not guilty should have been allowed. Mass. R. Crim. P. 25 (a), 378 Mass. 896 (1979). We address both of these arguments. In addition, we have reviewed the entire record before us as we must pursuant to G. L. c. 278, § 33E (1992 ed.). We conclude that admission of the prior bad act evidence was not erroneous, and that there was sufficient evidence on which the jury could have found the defendant guilty. Finally, we conclude that there is nothing in the record that warrants relief under § 33E.