COMMONWEALTH v. JENKINS


416 Mass. 736 (1994)

625 N.E.2d 1344

COMMONWEALTH vs. CHARLES R. JENKINS.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

January 10, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Willie J. Davis for the defendant.

Kenneth H. Anderson, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.1

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


WILKINS, J.

We granted further appellate review in this case to consider the Commonwealth's challenge to the Appeals Court's determination in Commonwealth v. Jenkins, 34 Mass.App.Ct. 135, 144 (1993), that it was "unable to conclude that unanimity [of the jury] was reached in accordance with the letter and the spirit of" G.L.c. 234, § 34 (1992 ed.). As a guard against the coercion of a jury to reach a...

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