Commonwealth v. Richardson

Convicted of assaulting his nephew with a dangerous weapon — a knife — and three counts of threatening to commit a crime (threats to kill three individuals), the defendant claims that he is entitled to a new trial because of the erroneous admission of two items of evidence. First, he challenges the admission of the second page of a written statement made to the police by his nephew stating that the nephew was told by one *95of the threatened individuals that on a previous day the defendant had threatened to kill him with a machete. Second, he claims that the judge should not have, over…