Commonwealth v. Redmond

The defendant appeals under G. L. c. 278, § § 33A-33G, from convictions of murder in the first degree, burglary while armed, and armed robbery. We hold that the prosecutor, both in his cross-examination of the defendant and in his summation to the jury, repeatedly and deliberately went beyond permissible limits, and that the cautionary instructions of the judge were insufficient to cure the resulting prejudice to the defendant. We therefore reverse the judgments and remand the case for a new trial.

There is substantially no dispute as to the following facts. On Friday, February 22, 1974, the…