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COMMONWEALTH v. BASTARACHE

382 Mass. 86 (1980)

414 N.E.2d 984

COMMONWEALTH vs. MARK E. BASTARACHE.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Franklin.

December 12, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas Lesser (William C. Newman with him) for the defendant.

Stephen R. Kaplan, Assistant District Attorney (Barbara A.H. Smith, Assistant Attorney General, with him) for the Commonwealth.

Nancy Gertner, for Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts & Andrew Good, for Massachusetts Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

Francis X. Bellotti, Attorney General, & Barbara A.H. Smith, Assistant Attorney General, for Attorney General & various district attorneys, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

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

WILKINS, J.

In its broader significance, this appeal from the defendant's conviction of manslaughter concerns the legality of the composition of the grand jury that indicted him and the petit jury that tried him. In brief, the defendant challenges the underrepresentation of persons between the ages of eighteen and thirty-four, inclusive, on municipal jury lists from which his grand and petit juries were derived. The Appeals...

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