Commonwealth v. Osachuk

The defendant appeals from his conviction, by a Superior Court jury, of one count of involuntary manslaughter (G. L. c. 265, § 13). On appeal, he argues that his motion for a required finding of not guilty should have been allowed because of the insufficiency of evidence on the issue of proximate cause. He also claims that the prosecutor impermissibly goaded a key witness into creating an imaginary time line concerning the events of the day in question, and improperly relied on that time line in his closing argument. *72Finally, he maintains that the judge gave an inadequate instruction on the…