Commonwealth v. Coburn

The pretrial hearing on the motion to suppress and the trial of the indictments in this case have yielded twelve undigested volumes of tran*782script which the defendant’s counsel has “dumped... upon the court with... general and diffusive argument” (Commonwealth v. Gale, 317 Mass. 274, 277 [1944]); we confine our consideration to such of the assignments of error as comply with G. L. c. 278, § 33D (Commonwealth v. Silvia, 343 Mass. 130, 136, 138 [1961]; Commonwealth v. Fleurant, 2 Mass. App. Ct. 250, 251, n.l [1974]), are grounded on exceptions, have been argued (Rule 1:13 of the Appeals Court,…