Commonwealth v. Robinson

In 1996 the defendant, Frank M. Robinson, was convicted of kidnapping and felony-murder in the second degree on the basis of the underlying kidnapping. He appealed from his convictions and, in a published opinion, we affirmed the felony-murder conviction but vacated as duplicative the underlying kidnapping conviction. Commonwealth v. Robinson, 48 Mass. App. Ct. 329, 341-342 (1999) (Robinson I ). The defendant is now before us on an appeal from the denial of a motion for a new trial. He raises two challenges. He asserts that the evidence of the kidnapping was insufficient and, therefore, that…