Commonwealth v. Woods

The defendant was convicted by a jury in the District Court of distributing cocaine and doing so within a school zone. His principal contentions on appeal are that expert testimony from two police officers exceeded the bounds of propriety and that, in the absence of evidence that Miranda warnings had been given, testimony that, during the booking process, the defendant said that he was unemployed should not have been allowed. There was error, but we find it to have been harmless. We therefore affirm.

Two Boston police officers testified about the alleged drug transaction. From a distance of…