COMMONWEALTH v. DONOVAN


392 Mass. 647 (1984)

467 N.E.2d 198

COMMONWEALTH vs. PAUL DONOVAN.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Essex.

August 7, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brownlow M. Speer for the defendant.

Lila Heideman, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., WILKINS, LIACOS, LYNCH, & O'CONNOR, JJ.


WILKINS, J.

We granted the defendant's application for further appellate review, following the decision of the Appeals Court affirming his conviction of assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon. Commonwealth v. Donovan, 17 Mass.App.Ct. 924 (1983). The defendant asks us to consider a single question: whether his Sixth Amendment right to counsel was violated by the admission in evidence of a pretrial corporeal identification made by a witness...

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