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Defense says prosecutor mischaracterized debit card evidence in trafficking trial
Summary
In Commonwealth v. Jean Jeffrey Villeneuve, defense counsel argued the prosecutor's closing repeatedly overstated evidence about a debit/credit card with a misspelled name and that the card was inert and unlinked to the defendant; the Commonwealth said reasonable inferences and other phone/forensic evidence supported its theory.
At oral argument in Commonwealth v. Jean Jeffrey Villeneuve, defense counsel Carl Sujecki urged the appeals panel to find reversible error in the prosecutor’s closing for misstatements about a debit/credit card that the defense says had no nexus to the defendant. Sujecki argued the detective’s testimony showed the card’s provenance was uncertain and that the prosecution repeatedly relied on…
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