Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 10/3/1973

Commonwealth v. Williams

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301 N.E.2d 683
364 Mass. 145
1973 Mass. LEXIS 490

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allowing § 33E relief where defendant, who carried no weapon, reacted with violence when discovered in robbery intended to be nonviolent such that \[t]he entire sequence reflect[ed] spontaneity rather than premeditation\
reducing verdict where defendants “intended to steal surreptitiously, not by violence, as in a robbery [, and] reacted with violence only when they were discovered in the act of the theft, which the deceased tried violently to thwart”
challenge to venire rejected in the absence of a showing of systematic exclusion even though only one of 121 persons examined was black
\Regard for the public interest impels us to use with restraint our power under § 33E to modify the jury's verdict\

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Judges: Tauro, Quirico, Braucher, Hennessey, Wilkins

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