Commonwealth v. McCue, 959 N.E.2d 458, 81 Mass.App.Ct. 1109 (2012)
“Lay testimony from a police officer identifying a defendant from a videotape or photograph has been upheld as properly admitted in certain circumstances. The jury had the benefit of their own examination of the photographic document, and were able to weigh the lay identification testimony against their own interpretation of the images in evidence.”
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