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COMMONWEALTH v. SMITH

362 Mass. 782 (1973)

291 N.E.2d 607

COMMONWEALTH vs. WILLIE A. SMITH.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

January 10, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert V. Greco for the defendant.

Alan Chapman, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Present: TAURO, C.J., QUIRICO, BRAUCHER, & HENNESSEY, JJ.

HENNESSEY, J.

Smith appeals under G.L.c. 278, §§ 33A-33G, from a denial of his motion for a new trial, after he was convicted on June 18, 1970, for the illegal sale of heroin and the illegal possession of a firearm. He assigns as error the ineffective assistance of counsel in violation of the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution because of an alleged conflict of interest.

The two indictments against Smith arose out of...

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