Commonwealth v. Harmon

The defendant was convicted of being an accessory after the fact to murder.1 The case arose out of the events *457surrounding the fatal shooting of Joseph Alemesis (victim) on February 2, 2001, in Lowell. Charles Byrd pleaded guilty to murdering the victim. The defendant, on appeal, challenges the sufficiency of an affidavit for a search warrant that turned up incriminating evidence, and the trial judge’s instructions to the jury on consciousness of guilt. We affirm the judgment.

1. Sufficiency of the affidavit, a. Facts. The defendant argues that the affidavit for the search warrant failed to…