Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Perito
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided May 5, 1994PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtO’Connor, J.
The defendant appeals from four armed robbery convictions. He claims error in (1) the denial of his pretrial motion to dismiss the robbery indictments or to suppress photograph and fingerprint evidence as a remedy for an allegedly illegal detention; (2) the denial of his pretrial motion to dismiss one of the robbery indictments as a remedy for the Commonwealth’s failure to preserve potentially exculpatory evidence; and (3) the exclusion at trial of evidence of other armed robberies. We transferred the case to this court on our own initiative to consider whether a District Court judge may set…
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