Commonwealth v. Crayton

The defendant was convicted by a Superior Court jury on two indictments of possession of child pornography, in violation of G. L. c. 272, § 29C. We granted the defendant’s application for direct appellate review. In his appeal, the defendant claims that the trial judge made three errors that warrant a new trial. First, he contends that the judge erred in admitting in evidence the in-court identifications of the defendant by two eyewitnesses who had not previously participated in an out-of-court identification procedure. Second, the defendant claims that, where the defendant admitted to police…