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COMMONWEALTH v. JONES

423 Mass. 99 (1996)

COMMONWEALTH v. MAISI JONES.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Worcester.

July 1, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Benjamin H. Keehn, Committee for Public Counsel Services, for the defendant.

Patricia C. Smith, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Present: LIACOS, C.J., WILKINS, ABRAMS, LYNCH, & GREANEY, JJ.

WILKINS, J.

We deal with the question of the admissibility of an in-court identification of the defendant that (a) was based on highly suggestive confrontations with the defendant that neither the police nor the prosecution arranged and (b) was not based independently on the witness's original observations of the person whom she identified as the defendant. The trial judge, who considered the admissibility of the identification...

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