Commonwealth v. Bonnett
Annotate this CaseAfter a trial, Defendant was convicted of murder in the first degree on a theory of deliberate premeditation. Defendant filed a motion for a new trial, which the trial judge denied. Defendant appealed from his conviction and from the denial of his motion for a new trial, claiming that the trial judge erred on the eve of trial by denying Defendant’s motion for disclosure of the identity of an informant who, according to a report prepared by the FBI, had heard that Defendant’s friend, and not the defendant, had shot the victim. The Supreme Judicial Court remanded for further proceedings in connection with Defendant’s motion for disclosure of the informant’s identity but did not now see cause to exercise its authority under Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 278, 33E to reduce the verdict or to order a new trial.
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