Tynes v. Commonwealth

D. ARTHUR KELSEY, Judge.

On appeal, Albert Tynes argues that his convictions for robbery, abduction, and felonious use of a firearm should be vacated and the case retried because the trial court erroneously restricted his cross-examination of a prosecution witness. Finding Tynes’s proffers of the rejected testimony inadequate to demonstrate error, much less prejudicial error, we affirm.

I

At Tynes’s bench trial, the Commonwealth presented evidence that Tynes and two others robbed Quentin Matthews and Jeffrey Scott at gunpoint. In his cross-examination of Scott, Tynes’s counsel asked: “As you…