COMMONWEALTH v. HAYWOOD


377 Mass. 755 (1979)

388 N.E.2d 648

COMMONWEALTH vs. WILBERT HAYWOOD.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

April 5, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Monroe L. Inker for the defendant.

Daniel V. Mullane, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., BRAUCHER, KAPLAN, LIACOS, & ABRAMS, JJ.


ABRAMS, J.

Wilbert Haywood appeals from his conviction of the murder in the second degree of George Anthony Willis. G.L.c. 278, §§ 33A-33G. Haywood claims that reversal of his conviction is required because: (1) his constitutional right to cross-examine adverse witnesses on the issue of bias was infringed; (2) evidence of an independent crime was erroneously admitted; (3) there was insufficient credible evidence to warrant his conviction; and (4) the substitution...

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