Legal Opinion

Commonwealth v. Trainor

Massachusetts Appeals Court

Decided May 3, 2018No. 16–P–1462Published

1Opinion of the Court

Following a jury trial in the Superior Court, the defendant was convicted of armed robbery and assault and battery.2 On appeal, he claims that (1) his pretrial motion to suppress out-of-court photographic identifications of him should have been allowed, (2) the evidence was insufficient to sustain his convictions, and (3) he was deprived of the effective assistance of counsel. We affirm.

1. Motion to suppress. Before trial, the defendant moved to suppress out-of-court identifications of him by three eyewitnesses: James Randall, Christopher Hebert, and Jeffrey Goodrich. Following an evidentiary…

2Cases cited16 opinions

  1. Commonwealth v. LatimoreMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1979
  2. Commonwealth v. SaferianMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1974
  3. Commonwealth v. BowdenMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1980
  4. Commonwealth v. Silva-SantiagoMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2009
  5. Commonwealth v. ZinserMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2006

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