Commonwealth v. Knowles

*1158*618This appeal requires us to apply the rule prohibiting cross-examination by innuendo, most recently enunciated in Commonwealth v. Peck, 86 Mass. App. Ct. 34, 12 N.E.3d 1020 (2014) ( Peck ), to the cross-examination of three defense witnesses: an expert witness, a lay witness, and the defendant himself.

A jury in the Central Division of the Boston Municipal Court Department found the defendant guilty of two counts of unlawful possession of a loaded firearm in violation of G. L. c. 269, § 10(a ), (n ). The primary issues at trial were whether the defendant knowingly possessed the two firearms…