COMMONWEALTH v. COY


10 Mass. App. Ct. 367 (1980)

407 N.E.2d 1310

COMMONWEALTH vs. JEFFREY COY.

Appeals Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

August 6, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert L. Cooperstein, Assistant District Attorney (Jan Roller, Special Assistant District Attorney, with him) for the Commonwealth.

Stephen Hrones for the defendant.

Present: GREANEY, PERRETTA, & KASS, JJ.


GREANEY, J.

In this case, on the Commonwealth's appeal (G.L.c. 278, § 28E; G.L.c. 211, § 4A), we are asked to pass upon the constitutional acceptability of an identification of the defendant made by the victim at a hospital confrontation shortly after the occurrence of two violent crimes. After an evidentiary hearing, at which the victim and two Boston police officers testified, a judge of the Superior Court ordered the identification made at the hospital...

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