COMMONWEALTH v. FIDLER


377 Mass. 192 (1979)

385 N.E.2d 513

COMMONWEALTH vs. JOHN W. FIDLER.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

January 30, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael J. McHugh, Legal Assistant to the District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

James W. Lawson for the defendant.

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


ABRAMS, J.

By its application for further appellate review the Commonwealth seeks reversal or modification of an Appeals Court decision pertaining to the impeachment of jury verdicts through evidence both of "extraneous" outside influences on the jury and of intra-jury communications. This issue was raised by the defendant's motion for a new trial, which was denied by the trial judge.1 The Commonwealth also urges this court to speak to...

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