Commonwealth v. Nascimento

We consider the defendant Warren Nascimento’s appeal, which we transferred here on our own motion, from convictions relating to (a) breaking and entering the Freetown dwelling house of Lionel Aubut on January 5, 1990, and (b) kidnapping, shooting, and robbing Francis Butts in Fall River a few days later.1 None of the defendant’s arguments requires reversal of any conviction challenged on appeal.

We set forth the basic facts on which the convictions rested, leaving certain details to our discussion of specific issues. We conclude that the evidence was sufficient to justify the denial of the…