Commonwealth v. Splaine

After members of the Cambridge police department executed a search warrant at the defendant's residence, a grand jury returned indictments charging the defendant with various drug and firearm offenses. A Superior Court jury convicted the defendant of the narcotics violations (possession of heroin with the intent to distribute and a related school zone offense) and acquitted him on the remaining firearm charges. On appeal, he challenges the sufficiency of the evidence and claims that certain remarks made by the prosecutor in his closing argument were errors that created a substantial risk of a…