COMMONWEALTH v. HIGHTOWER


400 Mass. 267 (1987)

508 N.E.2d 850

COMMONWEALTH vs. ROBERT HIGHTOWER, JR.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

June 15, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jane Larmon White, Committee for Public Counsel Services, for the defendant.

Daniel P. Napolitano, Assistant District Attorney (Gary Schubert, Assistant District Attorney, with him) for the Commonwealth.

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


O'CONNOR, J.

After a jury trial, the defendant was convicted of armed robbery, possession of a firearm with the identification number removed while in the commission of a felony, and unlawfully carrying a firearm under his control in a motor vehicle. The defendant appealed, and we transferred the case to this court on our own motion. On appeal, the defendant contends that the trial judge erred in (1) admitting in evidence, as proof of consciousness of guilt, that...

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