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COMMONWEALTH v. GAUDETTE

441 Mass. 762 (2004)

COMMONWEALTH v. GERALD GAUDETTE.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

May 24, 2004.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nadell Hill for the defendant.

Kevin J. Curtin, Assistant District Attorney (Stephen B. Barton, Assistant District Attorney, with him) for the Commonwealth.

Present: MARSHALL, C.J., GREANEY, IRELAND, SPINA, COWIN, SOSMAN, & CORDY, JJ.

MARSHALL, C.J.

In Commonwealth v. Person, 400 Mass. 136, 139, 142 (1987), we held that a prosecutor's closing argument that a defendant who "sat through" all of the Commonwealth's evidence "was able to fabricate a cover story tailored to answer every detail of the evidence against him" was improper and (in the circumstances of that case) "require[d] reversal" of the judgment...

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