COMMONWEALTH v. FAFONE


416 Mass. 329 (1993)

621 N.E.2d 1178

COMMONWEALTH vs. JOSEPH FAFONE.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Hampden.

November 2, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wendy Sibbison for the defendant.

Jane Davidson Montori, Assistant District Attorney (Elizabeth Dunphy Farris, Assistant District Attorney, with her) for the Commonwealth.

Present: LIACOS, C.J., WILKINS, ABRAMS, NOLAN, & O'CONNOR, JJ.


NOLAN, J.

The defendant appeals from his convictions on three counts of being an accessory before the fact to trafficking in cocaine. He argues a plethora of issues but we limit ourselves to the threshold issue of jurisdiction. We reverse the convictions because the defendant's motion for required findings of not guilty for want of territorial jurisdiction should have been allowed. See Mass. R. Crim. P. 25(a), 378 Mass. 896 (1979).

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