Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Coy
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided August 6, 1980PublishedCited by 34 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtGreaney, J.
In this case, on the Commonwealth’s appeal (G. L. c. 278, § 28E; G. L. c. 211, § 4A), we are asked to pass upon the constitutional acceptability of an identification of the defendant made by the victim at a hospital confrontation shortly after the occurrence of two violent crimes. After an evidentiary hearing, at which the victim and two Boston police officers testified, a judge of the Superior Court ordered the identification made at the hospital suppressed. Based on his assessment of the out-of-court identification, he also ruled that the victim’s proposed in-court identification lacked an…
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