# Commonwealth v. Tanner

> Massachusetts Appeals Court · October 8, 1998 · 45 Mass. App. Ct. 576

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/6460292

## Case

- **Full name:** Commonwealth v. Lisa Tanner
- **Court:** Massachusetts Appeals Court
- **Decided:** October 8, 1998
- **Citations:** 45 Mass. App. Ct. 576; 700 N.E.2d 282; 1998 Mass. App. LEXIS 1105
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Gillerman
- **Judges:** Brown, Gillerman
- **Cited by:** 53 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- noting that “[i]t is easy for the line between specific observations and expert generalizations to become blurred,” and “[t]he testimony of a combined expert/ percipient witness has unique persuasive value”

## Opinion text

Gillerman, J.
(concurring). I concur in part one of the majority opinion only in so far as it affirms the conviction on the authority of Commonwealth v. Woods, 419 Mass. 366, 374-376 (1995), and Commonwealth v. Rivera, 425 Mass. 633, 645-646 (1997). I join the majority in part two.

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