Massachusetts Appeals Court· 11/20/1991

Commonwealth v. Mathews

Citations

581 N.E.2d 1304
31 Mass. App. Ct. 564
1991 Mass. App. LEXIS 779

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stating that, where the judge had not adequately probed the prosecutor’s nondiscriminatory reasons for exercising peremptory strikes, “we could remand the case to the trial judge for additional findings”
stating that, where the judge had not adequately probed the prosecutor's nondiscriminatory reasons for exercising peremptory strikes, \we could remand the case to the trial judge for additional findings\
jurors, in a rape case, “bear no such burden; their role in a trial is limited to finding the facts on the basis of the evidence, dispassionately and impartially”
inappropriate for prosecutor to tell the jury that they were “the conscience of the community”
jurors, in rape case, “bear no such burden; their role in a trial is limited to finding the facts on the basis of the evidence, dispassionately and impartially”

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Judges: Dreben, Fine, Jacobs

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