COMMONWEALTH v. BARROWS


391 Mass. 781 (1984)

464 N.E.2d 66

COMMONWEALTH vs. MICHAEL BARROWS.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

May 10, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert I. Warner for the defendant.

Ellen M. Donahue, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., ABRAMS, NOLAN, LYNCH, & O'CONNOR, JJ.


NOLAN, J.

The sole issue in this case is the propriety of the trial judge's decision to require the Commonwealth and the defendant to exercise their peremptory challenges after each juror was declared indifferent. The defendant contends that he had a right to an empanelling process by which he could exercise all his peremptory challenges at one time after the fourteen jurors had been seated. There was no reversible error.

The defendant, while a prisoner, was...

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