Commonwealth v. Huertas

The sole issue in this appeal is whether the trial judge committed reversible error by refusing to allow the defendant to elicit from the prosecution’s chief witness the fact that he, the witness, was being held in a juvenile detention center as a material witness at the time of trial. The defendant argues that this information should have been available to the jury in order to show possible bias and motive to lie. We affirm the defendant’s convictions by a jury of two counts of murder in the second degree and of illegally carrying a firearm.

On August 13, 1989, two men were murdered when they…