COMMONWEALTH v. PARADISE


405 Mass. 141 (1989)

539 N.E.2d 1006

COMMONWEALTH vs. LIONEL J. PARADISE, JR.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Worcester.

June 14, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John F. Buckley for the defendant.

Katherine E. McMahon, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Present: WILKINS, LIACOS, ABRAMS, NOLAN, & LYNCH, JJ.


LIACOS, J.

The defendant, Lionel J. Paradise, Jr., appeals from his convictions of the murder in the first degree of Angel G. Lawrence and of Lowell Jason Strait.1 The defendant argues that he was irremediably prejudiced by the Commonwealth's failure to inform him until the eve of trial of the statements of an allegedly exculpatory witness. He claims he is therefore entitled to have the indictments dismissed, or that he should have a new...

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