Commonwealth v. Powell

The defendant appeals from convictions in the District Court of breaking and entering into a building and larceny under $250. He argues that the procedure used by the judge in combining a hearing on his motion to suppress his identification by a witness with the jury-waived trial on the merits deprived him of due process of law. The defendant also complains of ineffective assistance of counsel with respect to the admission of hearsay and, lastly, challenges the propriety of the witness’s alleged in-court identification of him.1 For the following reasons, we affirm the convictions.

Early on the…