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COMMONWEALTH v. RICHARDS

384 Mass. 396 (1981)

425 N.E.2d 305

COMMONWEALTH vs. RALPH P. RICHARDS.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Plymouth.

August 20, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel L. Callahan for the defendant.

Robert M. Payton, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., BRAUCHER, WILKINS, LIACOS, ABRAMS, NOLAN, & LYNCH, JJ.

ABRAMS, J.

In 1970, the defendant was convicted of murder in the second degree on an indictment charging him with murder in the first degree in the death of Robert Nute.1 The case is here on the defendant's appeal pursuant to G.L.c. 278, §§ 33A-33G.2 Richards alleges that (1) the judge's instructions to the jury effectively precluded a reasonable juror from...

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