COMMONWEALTH v. BLAKE


428 Mass. 57 (1998)

COMMONWEALTH v. ARTHUR BLAKE (and thirty-seven companion cases).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

July 22, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Benjamin H. Keehn, Committee for Public Counsel Services, for Damon Brown.

Margaret G. Barmack for Arthur Blake.

Kristine Luongo Tammaro, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Present: WILKINS, C.J., ABRAMS, LYNCH, GREANEY, FRIED, MARSHALL, & IRELAND, JJ.


LYNCH, J.

The defendants' convictions of numerous counts of assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon and armed assault with intent to murder arose out of their participation in a shooting spree that occurred at an outdoor festival in Franklin Park in the Dorchester section of Boston. On appeal, each defendant challenges the admissibility of the other's statements and of statements made by a third codefendant.

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