Commonwealth v. Terzian

The defendant, an attorney, was convicted of attempting to procure another to commit perjury, G. L. c. 268, § 3, and intimidation of a witness, G. L. c. 268, § 13B. He appeals his convictions and the denial of his two motions for a *740new trial,1 alleging that (1) his motion to suppress oral communications he made to a police informant should have been allowed because the communications were illegally seized in violation of the Massachusetts wiretap statute, G. L. c. 272, § 99; (2) he received ineffective assistance of trial counsel in that counsel failed to investigate and call a potential…