COMMONWEALTH v. GEARY

No. 90-P-1491.

32 Mass. App. Ct. 511 (1992)

591 N.E.2d 217

COMMONWEALTH vs. RICHARD J. GEARY.

Appeals Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

May 12, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dana A. Curhan for the defendant.

Thomas J. Mundy, Jr., Assistant District Attorney (Brian J. Carney, Assistant District Attorney, with him) for the Commonwealth.

Present: PERRETTA, FINE, & IRELAND, JJ.


PERRETTA, J.

Contrary to the prosecutor's prediction in his opening statement to the jury, Susan O'Leary never appeared at the defendant's trial to relate how the defendant told her, in effect, "[N]o matter what happens tonight, you don't know anything." When she could not be found, the prosecutor asked various witnesses if they knew where she was. On his appeal from his conviction for murder in the second degree...

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