Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 12/6/2000

Commonwealth v. Ellis

Citations

432 Mass. 746
739 N.E.2d 1107
2000 Mass. LEXIS 751

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rejecting “defendant’s claim that a more pointed instruction would have avoided the deadlock”
where evidence established that defendant participated in joint venture to murder, jury need not determine precise role played
“Absent evidence that the judge acted in bad faith, alleged judicial errors giving rise to a mistrial do not support a claim of double jeopardy.”
“We need not consider the propriety of the judge’s extreme atrocity or cruelty instruction where, as here, the jury rationally concluded that the defendant was guilty of felony-murder”
jury not required to conclude unanimously that the defendant was either the principal or the joint venturer
even if judge’s failure to give joint venture instruction to deadlocked jury had been error, such error would not have precluded retrial absent showing of bad faith

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