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COMMONWEALTH v. LEASTER

395 Mass. 96 (1985)

479 N.E.2d 124

COMMONWEALTH vs. BOBBY JOE LEASTER.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

June 6, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert F. Muse (Christopher J. Muse & Ronald Kovner with him) for the defendant.

Michael J. Traft, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Daniel E. Callahan & Brownlow M. Speer, for Committee for Public Counsel Services & another, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

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

O'CONNOR, J.

Bobby Joe Leaster appeals from a Superior Court judge's denial of his motion for postconviction relief seeking a new trial under Mass. R. Crim. P. 30, 378 Mass. 900 (1979), and from the denial of his motion for reconsideration thereof.1 On June 22, 1971, Leaster was convicted of murder in the first degree, of armed robbery, and of assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon...

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