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COMMONWEALTH v. SHEEHY

412 Mass. 235 (1992)

588 N.E.2d 10

COMMONWEALTH vs. PAUL SHEEHY.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

March 16, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Catherine E. Sullivan, Assistant District Attorney (Patricia Preziosa, Assistant District Attorney, with her) for the Commonwealth.

Nona E. Walker, Committee for Public Counsel Services, for the defendant.

Present: LIACOS, C.J., WILKINS, ABRAMS, NOLAN, & LYNCH, JJ.

LIACOS, C.J.

Once again, we review a trial in which alternate jurors were present in the jury room during deliberations. In Commonwealth v. Smith, 403 Mass. 489 (1988), and again in Commonwealth v. Jones, 405 Mass. 661 (1989), we held that it is reversible error to allow alternate jurors to sit in the jury room with deliberating jurors. We reaffirm the Smith...

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