Commonwealth v. Amado

On October 29, 1980, a jury in the Superior Court in Suffolk County found Christian Amado guilty of murder in the first degree. He was sentenced to life imprisonment and filed a timely notice of appeal. The defendant’s principal contentions are that the trial judge erred by allowing three police officers to testify regarding an alleged pretrial identification of the defendant by the chief prosecution witness, and by denying the defendant’s motion for a *180required finding of not guilty, which he made at the close of the Commonwealth’s case and renewed at the close of all the evidence (see Mass.…