State v. Dube
Annotate this CaseAfter a jury trial, Defendant was convicted of kidnapping and murdering a fifteen-year-old girl. The Supreme Judicial Court affirmed, holding (1) the trial court did not err by admitting nonexpert opinion testimony regarding handwriting to prove that Defendant wrote a document admitting to the crime, and even if the admission of the testimony was in error, it is highly probable that any error would have been harmless; and (2) there was no error, much less an error so prejudicial that it deprived Defendant of his right to a fair trial, in the State’s repeated mention of the jurors’ “common sense” in its closing argument.
Court Description: Corrected April 21, 2016 (Errata Sheet)
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