Commonwealth v. Jewett

The defendant was convicted of rape. He appeals from his conviction and from the denial of his motion for a new trial, contending: (1) that the exclusion of prior misidentification evidence, tending to cast doubt on his identity as the complainant’s assailant, denied him a fair trial; (2) that the Commonwealth’s failure to preserve semen samples for “PGM” analysis denied him a fair trial; (3) that the trial judge’s refusal to allow defense counsel to comment to the jury on the Commonwealth’s failure to conduct “ABO” analysis on the semen samples collected denied him a fair trial; and (4) that…