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COMMONWEALTH v. PRASHAW

No. 01-P-866.

57 Mass. App. Ct. 19 (2003)

COMMONWEALTH v. TRACY L. PRASHAW.

Court of Appeals of Massachusetts, Worcester.

January 8, 2003.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dana Alan Curhan (Joseph I. Machera & Lori A. Benavides with him) for the defendant.

Christopher P. Hodgens, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Present: LENK, MASON, & BERRY, JJ.

BERRY, J.

In this appeal, the defendant challenges the admission in evidence of photographs depicting her naked in various sexually provocative positions. Balancing the minimal probative value of the pictures with respect to the nonsex-related offenses being tried1 against the marked prejudice, we conclude that this is one of those exceptional cases where the bounds of the usual grant...

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