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COMMONWEALTH v. SERRANO.

No. 97-P-1942.

48 Mass. App. Ct. 163 (1999)

COMMONWEALTH v. ANGEL SERRANO (and two companion cases).

Court of Appeals of Massachusetts, Essex.

October 28, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter M. Onek, Committee for Public Counsel Services (Jane M. Moynihan with him) for the defendants.

Douglas H. Wilkins, Special Assistant Attorney General, for the Commonwealth.

Present: GREENBERG, GILLERMAN, & RAPOZA, JJ.

GREENBERG, J.

Three Hispanic men were jointly tried and convicted by a jury of the Superior Court of various drug distribution charges. One of the common errors they assign on appeal is that the government improperly exercised one of its peremptory challenges to exclude the only potential black juror, thereby depriving them of a representative jury.

1. Jury impanelment.2

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