Summary Charts
Welch v. Keene Corp., 575 N.E.2d 766, 31 Mass.App.Ct. 157 (1991)
Summary charts of voluminous evidence are permissible if they are accurate and fair, although "care must be taken to insure that summaries accurately [31 Mass.App.Ct. 166] reflect the contents of the underlying documents and do not function ...
Commonwealth v. Mimless, 760 N.E.2d 762, 53 Mass.App.Ct. 534 (2002)
“A thirty-four page bar chart depicting the hours the defendant billed Medicaid each day was used as a chalk at trial. "A judge . . . has `considerable, but not unrestrained, discretion as to the degree to which chalks can be used.'" Commonwealth v. ...
Peloquin v. Robert Northridge Furniture Co., 178 N.E.2d 495, 343 Mass. 317 (1961)
“A medical witness of the plaintiff in testifying to the plaintiff's injuries was permitted to use a 'Chart of Osteology' as a chalk and exhibited on the blackboard after a conference at the bench. Everson v. Casualty Co. of America, 208 Mass. 214, ...
Farrell v. Matchett, 37 N.E.2d 247, 310 Mass. 87 (1941)
“The diagram had not been introduced in evidence and had been used only as a "chalk." It showed the white line in the center of the road, the point where the accident occurred, the courses taken by the two automobiles after they came into contact, ...
Commonwealth v. John, 261 Mass. 510 (1928)
“A plan of Boston Harbor, with certain markings thereon, was held properly to have been admitted in evidence as a chalk, which would be of assistance in understanding the geography of the proscribed area.”
Inhabitants of Lynnfield v. Inhabitants of Peabody, 106 N.E. 977, 219 Mass. 322 (1914)
The plan of the property of each petitioner in the bed of the lake was admissible, as a chalk, to show the claims made by the petitioners.
Commonwealth v. Greenberg, 339 Mass. 557, 160 N.E.2d 181 (1959)
The Commonwealth called as a witness an accountant who had collated the checks and deposit slips of Greenberg and Maitland which had been admitted in evidence and had listed their dates and the amounts on large charts which were shown to the jury and ...
Commonwealth v. Merry, 772 N.E.2d 600, 55 Mass.App.Ct. 1109 (2002)
A drawing of a figure standing and unclothed, even though the victim was seated and clothed during the incident, was an acceptable use of a diagram or chalk.
McLaughlin v. Cunningham, 435 N.E.2d 1064, 13 Mass.App.Ct. 1086 (1982)
The judge said the blackboard could be used for drawing a plan "to scale." As the witness did not have "the ability ... to draw to exact scale" where the collision took place, the judge refused permission for a drawing which he asserted might be ...
Whalen v. Shivek, 93 N.E.2d 393, 326 Mass. 142 (1950)
“A witness gave a description of a sketch of the parapet which he had made and which had been marked as a chalk. With respect to the witnesses' descriptions of the sketch and gestures the judge ruled, in substance, subject to the contractor's ...
Commonwealth v. Girouard, 436 Mass. 657, 766 N.E.2d 873 (2002)
Even though the prosecutor did not obtain prior approval, a mannequin was brought into the court room for Martin to illustrate how a certain knife wound had been inflicted in the victim's back.
Commonwealth v. Perryman, 770 N.E.2d 1, 55 Mass.App.Ct. 187 (2002)
Judge permitted jurors to look through a witness’s telescope during trial.
Commonwealth v. Hill, 767 N.E.2d 1078, 54 Mass.App.Ct. 690 (2002)
A doctor testified as to the results of a test even though she neither personally conducted the test nor personally supervised it.
State v. Lopez, 2009-280-C.A. – GET PROPER CITE AND SHORTEN BLURB
Admitted into evidence was an allele table, which presented the numerical-DNA profile of each of the seven samples tested. A supervisor at Cellmark testified that he prepared this chart based on his analysis of computer-generated graphs, which ...