Commonwealth v. Liebman

Pursuant to G. L. c. 278, §§ 33A-33G, the defendant appeals from a conviction of conspiracy to commit armed robbery of a bank while masked or disguised. He was sentenced to imprisonment for a term not exceeding ten years nor less than seven years. We transferred the appeal from the Appeals Court to this court on our own motion. Because the defendant has been denied access to the Federal grand jury testimony of the two principal witnesses against him, we remand the case for further proceedings. We also pass on his other assignments of error.

The principal prosecution witness was Milton Schnapf,…