Commonwealth v. Brown

The defendant, Felicia Brown, appeals from a conviction of peijury based on testimony she gave to a grand *441jury investigating the shooting of her cousin, Christopher Robinson. Robinson had been looking after Felicia’s mother’s house while the mother was away, and it was at the house that the shooting occurred in the early morning hours of August 16, 1996. Before he was taken to the hospital, Robinson told police that his assailant was Felicia’s boyfriend, Melvin; he didn’t know Melvin’s last name. At the hospital he was intubated and remained in critical condition for an extended period,…