Commonwealth v. Doyle

On December 15, 2003, a jury in Superior Court found the defendant, James Doyle, guilty of having trafficked in *847cocaine in an amount greater than fourteen grams but less than twenty-eight grams on July 8, 1999.1 On January 9, 2004, the defendant filed a motion for a new trial, which the motion judge (who was also the trial judge) denied without a hearing on May 20, 2005. The defendant, who relied on an entrapment defense at trial, here contends (appealing both his conviction and the denial of his motion for a new trial) that the judge should have granted him a new trial on the grounds that…