Commonwealth v. Baran

The appeal is from three convictions under G. L. c. 265, § 23, and five convictions under G. L. c. 265, § 13B. 1. The defendant offered no evidence to support the broad allegations of the concluding paragraph of his motion to sever, which were to the effect that he might wish to testify in some of the cases and invoke the privilege against self-incrimination in other cases. He even facilitated joinder to the extent that he waived indictment on two of the charges and consented to be tried on complaints for each type of offence. G. L. c. 263, § 4A. Mass.R.Crim.P. 3(d), 378 Mass. 848-849 (1979).…