Commonwealth v. Gordon

The defendant has been convicted of the armed robbery of a gasoline filling station in Tewksbury on September 18,1976, and has appealed under the provisions of G. L. c. 278, §§ 33A-33G. The errors which have been assigned and argued are (1) the denial of the defendant’s motion to suppress (a) evidence of the photographic identification of the defendant which the victim of the robbery had made to the Tewksbury police two days following the robbery and (b) the victim’s proposed in-court identification of the defendant as the robber, and (2) the exclusion of inquiries which counsel for the…