COMMONWEALTH v. FORDHAM


417 Mass. 10 (1994)

627 N.E.2d 901

COMMONWEALTH vs. JOHN R. FORDHAM.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Bristol.

February 8, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kevin S. Nixon for the defendant.

Elspeth B. Cypher, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Present: LIACOS, C.J., NOLAN, LYNCH, O'CONNOR, & GREANEY, JJ.


O'CONNOR, J.

The defendant appeals from his conviction of the murder in the first degree of his wife, Lisa Fordham, following a trial by jury. He argues that the trial judge erred by suspending at 3:15 P.M. until the next day the cross-examination of a principal Commonwealth witness, the defendant's son, Robert, just as the witness "began to recant ... the damning testimony that he had given on direct." The defendant also...

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