COMMONWEALTH v. PEREZ

No. 88-P-1245.

27 Mass. App. Ct. 550 (1989)

540 N.E.2d 697

COMMONWEALTH vs. ISRAEL GONZALEZ PEREZ.

Appeals Court of Massachusetts, Hampden.

July 13, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Terry Scott Nagel for the defendant.

Elizabeth R. Dunphy, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Present: PERRETTA, KAPLAN, & DREBEN, JJ.


DREBEN, J.

Found guilty after a bench trial of trafficking in cocaine, the defendant appeals from his conviction and from the denial of his motion for a new trial. These appeals concern a compelling description of the defendant — "an individual with a tattoo of a cross right in between his eyebrows." The description came from an informant who was not present at trial. The defendant urges, and the Commonwealth denies, that the informant's indirect statement...

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