Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2/5/1998

Commonwealth v. Johnson

Citations

426 Mass. 617
689 N.E.2d 1327
1998 Mass. LEXIS 36

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explaining that “if the juror has not yet been sworn, then there may be a peremptory challenge even after there has been a determination of that juror’s indifference”
juror asked simple question of fact in postconviction evidentiary hearing, i.e., whether her husband had, to her knowledge, attended victim’s wake
fact that “defendant shot the victim three times, twice at close range while the victim lay helpless on the street,” left little doubt that the defendant acted with malice
“defendant shot his victim three times, twice after he had fallen and was lying helpless in the street. There can be no doubt that [he] subjectively understood that a plain and strong likelihood of death would result from his actions”

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Judges: Fried

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