Commonwealth v. Delong

Following a jury trial in Superior Court, the defendant was found guilty of armed robbery of a supermarket *529in the Brighton section of Boston. On appeal from his conviction and also from the denial of his subsequent new trial motion, the defendant claims that the judge erred in admitting evidence of two prior robberies by him, which was offered to identify him as the person who had committed the robbery at issue in Brighton. He also claims that he was denied the effective assistance of counsel. We affirm the conviction.

Background. The Commonwealth’s evidence was as follows. On the morning of…