COMMONWEALTH v. ANDREWS


403 Mass. 441 (1988)

530 N.E.2d 1222

COMMONWEALTH vs. HERBERT ANDREWS, JR. (and three companion cases).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Plymouth.

November 29, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Willie J. Davis for Herbert Andrews, Jr.

Joseph F. Krowski for Thomas P. Cormier.

Mary Ellen O'Sullivan, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

The defendants, pro se, submitted a brief.

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


LIACOS, J.

The defendants challenge their convictions of murder in the first degree after two trials, the first of which resulted in a mistrial because the jury could not reach any verdicts. The defendants assert that the second trial should have been barred by double jeopardy principles. Alternatively, the defendants seek a third trial because of claimed errors in the second trial. We reject the defendants' double jeopardy...

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