COMMONWEALTH v. MATTHEWS

No. 97-P-2337.

45 Mass. App. Ct. 444 (1998)

COMMONWEALTH v. LLOYD MATTHEWS.

Court of Appeals of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

September 11, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lloyd Matthews, pro se.

Nancy L. Hathaway, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Present: JACOBS, DREBEN, & FLANNERY, JJ.


DREBEN, J.

Eleven years have elapsed since the date of the defendant's convictions,1 and this is an appeal from the denial of his third motion for a new trial. Even with the lenity expressed in note 2, infra, the defendant has a "heavy" burden to show that because of the claims raised for the first time in his motion, "there is a substantial risk that the outcome of the trial[...

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