COMMONWEALTH v. PALMARIN


378 Mass. 474 (1979)

392 N.E.2d 534

COMMONWEALTH vs. GEORGE PALMARIN.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

July 11, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Beth H. Saltzman for the defendant.

James S. Hamrock, Jr., Special Assistant District Attorney (Alice Hanlon, Legal Assistant to the District Attorney, with him) for the Commonwealth.

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


HENNESSEY, C.J.

The defendant was convicted by a Superior Court jury of unlawfully distributing heroin. He appealed his conviction, pursuant to G.L.c. 278, §§ 33A-33G, arguing error in (1) the prosecutor's cross-examination of five of the defense witnesses, and (2) portions of the judge's charge to the jury. The Appeals Court affirmed, Commonwealth v. Palmarin, 6 Mass.App.Ct. 801 (1979), and we...

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