Commonwealth v. Collins
Annotate this CaseAfter a jury trial, Defendant was convicted of murder in the second degree and other crimes. The trial judge denied Defendant’s motion for a new trial. The Supreme Judicial Court affirmed, holding (1) Defendant was not denied the effective assistance of counsel because of his attorney’s failure to object to the in-court identification of Defendant by an eyewitness and because of his attorney’s failure to object to the enforcement of a sequestration order during jury selection; (2) the trial judge did not err in denying Defendant’s motion for a new trial on the basis of prosecutorial misconduct; (3) the trial judge did not err in admitting cellular telephone records where the records were obtained by court order rather than with a search warrant; and (4) Defendant’s constitutional rights were not violated by his conviction of possession of an unlicensed firearm where Commonwealth didn’t prove that Defendant lacked a license to carry firearms.
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