State v. Anderson
Annotate this CaseAfter a jury trial, Defendant was convicted of two counts of unlawful trafficking in schedule W drugs. Defendant appealed. The Supreme Judicial Court affirmed, holding (1) Defendant was not deprived of a fair trial by the State’s closing argument that referred to Defendant’s prior bad acts, and the trial court did not commit reversible error by allowing the State to reference the events at issue without issuing a limiting instruction; (2) the trial court did not commit err in instructing the jury regarding constructive possession and accomplice liability; and (3) the evidence was sufficient to support Defendant’s conviction.
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