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    Default What are the Limits on a Prosecutor's Questioning of a Pro Se Defendant

    This question pertains to criminal court in the state of Massachusetts.

    During a pretrial conference, how much questioning is a prosecutor allowed to levy upon the attorney pro-ce (myself).

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    The prosecutor can ask as many questions as you're willing to answer.

    What are you hoping to accomplish at the pretrial? Working out a plea bargain? Scheduling the case for trial?

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    and this is one of the many reasons proceeding pro se is not a good idea. If you don't know the rules of the game, it's really hard to know when the other side is cheating.

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    No, I plan to move to dismiss at pre trial. I have established relevant evidence that put me in another state at the time of the offence. Furthermore, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is charging the person who confessed to the charge as well am myself. The only thing that connects me with the scene of the crime is that the car involved was a rental and I was the sole person authorized to drive the car. The person who drove the car and got into the accident confessed at the police station in the involved town, in my presence, to the officer in charge of the case. This case is out of the commonwealth of Massachusetts. Can the court charge two people for one offence when one of them has come forth and provided a statement saying that they and they alone are culpable.

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    Can the court charge two people for one offence when one of them has come forth and provided a statement saying that they and they alone are culpable.
    obviously that would be a yes since they have done so in your case. Obviously they don't believe your friend.

    Your case is not going to be tried at the pretrial which is what it appears you are attempting. All that is going to happen is the pros. is going to attempt to show there is enough evidence to show you should be tried on the charges against you.

    there is not the opportunity to investigate your claims (and that is what they are at this time) to support or refute them. Same thing with the pros. case.

    I have established relevant evidence that put me in another state at the time of the offence.
    and that is what the trial is for. You get to try to prove this defense, the pros gets a chance to refute it. Winner gets to go home at the end of the trial.

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