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Appeals Court reviews strangulation and witness-intimidation instructions in Kerrigan appeal
Summary
Counsel for appellant Lamar Kerrigan challenged sufficiency of evidence for strangulation, disputed whether four jail phone calls constituted witness intimidation, and argued that consciousness-of-guilt instructions improperly linked separate elements; the Commonwealth defended the jury's verdict and the judge's instructions.
The Appeals Court panel heard three principal issues in Commonwealth v. Lamar Kerrigan: whether evidence supported a strangulation conviction; whether phone calls from jail while an active restraining order was pending amounted to witness intimidation; and whether the court properly instructed the jury about consciousness of guilt.
Appellant counsel Jalimhan Nokom…
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