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Appeals court hears sufficiency and authentication challenges in Commonwealth v. Sanchez gun case
Summary
At the April 10 sitting the Appeals Court heard dueling arguments over whether surveillance video, a CJIS inquiry, shell casings and a magazine in a safe provided sufficient and properly authenticated evidence to support gun-related convictions in Commonwealth v. Jeremy N. Sanchez.
The Appeals Court heard April 10 argument in Commonwealth v. Jeremy N. Sanchez about whether the Commonwealth introduced sufficient evidence to support convictions tied to a shooting and whether certain investigative steps were properly authenticated.
Appellate counsel Joseph Assone argued for Sanchez that identification and evidentiary links were insufficient: the weapon was never recovered, the blurry surveillance “blob” seen in the initial video was not clearly a handgun rather than a rifle, shell casings at the scene…
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