Lamoureux v. Commonwealth

In Commonwealth v. Lamoureux, 348 Mass. 390, we affirmed the convictions of Lamoureux for robbery and kidnapping. Subsequently he sought relief in the Federal Court on various grounds in a number of actions and, there being unsuccessful, has now filed a petition for a writ of error in the county court. He assigns as error alleged violations of his constitutional rights because of unduly suggestive pre-trial identification procedures and excepts to the denial by the single justice of the issuance of the writ. He was tried in May of 1964, prior to the decisions in United States v. Wade, 388 U.…