Commonwealth v. Florek

The defendant was convicted by a jury in the Superior Court of armed robbery and attempted armed robbery of a Shell gas station in Dedham. He asserts that his convictions should be reversed because the judge erred in allowing the Commonwealth to introduce in evidence the prior recorded *415testimony of a missing witness and the statements made by the defendant at the time of his initial questioning by the police and at his booking. The defendant also claims that the judge erred in denying his motion to suppress his identification by the sole identifying witness because of unnecessarily suggestive…