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COMMONWEALTH v. MacDONALD

371 Mass. 600 (1976)

358 N.E.2d 1005

COMMONWEALTH vs. BRIAN F. MacDONALD.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

December 28, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward T. Dangel, III, for the defendant.

William A. Doherty, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., REARDON, QUIRICO, BRAUCHER, & WILKINS, JJ.

REARDON, J.

The defendant was indicted for murder in the first degree and for the unlawful possession of marihuana, and was found guilty of murder in the second degree and also of possession. He was thereafter sentenced to life imprisonment on the murder conviction.1 The murder indictment arose from a senseless killing which was the culmination of a racial argument between a black youth and a...

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