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COMMONWEALTH v. GILDAY

409 Mass. 45 (1991)

564 N.E.2d 577

COMMONWEALTH vs. WILLIAM MORRILL GILDAY, JR.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

January 7, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wendy Sibbison for the defendant.

David B. Mark, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

William C. Newman, for Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts & another, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: LIACOS, C.J., WILKINS, ABRAMS, NOLAN, & O'CONNOR, JJ.

LIACOS, C.J.

In 1972, the defendant, William M. Gilday, Jr., was convicted by a jury on an indictment charging murder in the first degree of a Boston police officer, and on two indictments for armed robbery. He received concurrent life sentences for the armed robbery convictions and a death sentence for the murder conviction, which was later reduced to life imprisonment in light of Furman v. Georgia, 408 U.S. 238 (1972...

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