Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Jones
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided March 27, 1997No. 94-P-1992PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBrown, J.
The defendant was convicted by a Boston Municipal Court jury of six of larceny from a person, G. L. c. 266, § 25, and assault and battery, G. L. c. 265, § 13A (two counts). On appeal he alleges that (1) he was deprived of effective representation at trial and (2) the trial judge erred in excluding the testimony of a defense witness. We affirm.
Based on the evidence adduced at trial, the jury would have been entitled to find the following facts. The victims, two women in their twenties, were walking along the sidewalk in the theater district of Boston. A snowstorm was underway, *379and several…
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