# Commonwealth v. Moyles

> Massachusetts Appeals Court · August 26, 1998 · 45 Mass. App. Ct. 350

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/6460266

## Case

- **Full name:** Commonwealth v. Hoyt Moyles
- **Court:** Massachusetts Appeals Court
- **Decided:** August 26, 1998
- **Citations:** 45 Mass. App. Ct. 350; 698 N.E.2d 408; 1998 Mass. App. LEXIS 962
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Brown
- **Judges:** Brown, Smith
- **Cited by:** 2 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

Brown, J.
(concurring). I am in full agreement with the majority. I wish, however, to emphasize that the trial judge’s practice of routinely not allowing defendants to sit at counsel table is not only arbitrary, but it is also fraught with unfairness. There is a plethora of cases setting out explicitly the law relative to this issue. The majority cites merely two clear examples: Commonwealth v. Moore, 379 Mass. 106 (1979), and Commonwealth v. Drew, 397 Mass. 65 (1986).

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