COMMONWEALTH v. SIMMONS


417 Mass. 60 (1994)

627 N.E.2d 917

COMMONWEALTH vs. CHARLES E. SIMMONS, JR.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Hampden.

February 11, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald A. Beaudry for the defendant.

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

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


O'CONNOR, J.

Following a jury trial, the defendant appeals from a conviction of murder in the first degree, from a denial in the trial court of his motion for a new trial, and from a denial by a single justice of this court of a second motion for a new trial. In the appeal from his conviction, the defendant argues that a false statement in the nature of an alibi that he made to the police when he was arrested for the murder was involuntarily made and therefore the...

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