Commonwealth v. Cruzado

This is the defendant’s direct appeal from his convictions of unarmed robbery and assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon and from his sentence of Ufe in prison on the charge of unarmed robbery, imposed as a habitual criminal under G. L. c. 279, § 25. He argues that the Commonwealth failed to prove all essential elements of the unarmed robbery and the assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon charges and that the convictions thus violated his right to due process. He also claims that the life sentence imposed under the habitual *804criminal statute relative to his unarmed…