COMMONWEALTH v. SHEFFIELD


16 Mass. App. Ct. 342 (1983)

451 N.E.2d 132

COMMONWEALTH vs. REGINALD SHEFFIELD.

Appeals Court of Massachusetts, Hampden.

July 8, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bernard Grossberg for the defendant.

John T. McDonough, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Present: GRANT, CUTTER, & SMITH, JJ.


CUTTER, J.

Sheffield, after waiver of indictments, was tried in the Superior Court for rape, sodomy, kidnapping, and assault by means of a dangerous weapon on complaints originally issued by a District Court. At a first trial (which began on October 29, 1979) before a Superior Court judge and a jury, a mistrial was declared upon motion of defense trial counsel because the judge thought that the prosecutor was violating...

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