COMMONWEALTH v. CASTILLO

No. 04-P-1755.

66 Mass. App. Ct. 34 (2006)

COMMONWEALTH vs. ANGEL CASTILLO.

Appeals Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

April 10, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Karen Logee Swenson for the defendant.

James P. Burbridge (John P. Zanini, Assistant District Attorney, with him) for the Commonwealth.

Present: DUFFLY, SMITH, & COHEN, JJ.


SMITH, J.

The practice of judges allowing criminal trials to be conducted on stipulated evidence has long been disfavored because "[i]t invites appeals of the most hair-splitting sort and cannot be justified to save court time." Commonwealth v. Babcock, 25 Mass.App.Ct. 688, 691 (1988). Commonwealth v. McDowell, 62 Mass.App.Ct. 15, 15 n.1 (2004)....

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