GLOBE NEWSPAPER CO. v. COMMONWEALTH


407 Mass. 879 (1990)

556 N.E.2d 356

GLOBE NEWSPAPER COMPANY vs. COMMONWEALTH & another.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

July 10, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

E. Susan Garsh (Beth A. Cataldo with her) for the plaintiff.

Paula J. DeGiacomo, Assistant Attorney General, for the Commonwealth.

Present: LIACOS, C.J., WILKINS, LYNCH, O'CONNOR, & GREANEY, JJ.


WILKINS, J.

On October 13, 1989, a jury in the Superior Court in Suffolk County found Shawn Drumgold guilty of murder in the first degree. Two weeks later, the trial judge received and had docketed an affidavit of a juror named Wilson who, just prior to jury deliberations in the Drumgold case, had been designated as one of three alternate jurors. The judge ordered a posttrial hearing concerning the matters raised in the alternate juror's affidavit. At that hearing...

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