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COMMONWEALTH v. GOMEZ

No. 00-P-703.

55 Mass. App. Ct. 247 (2002)

COMMONWEALTH v. JHONNY GOMEZ.

Court of Appeals of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

June 20, 2002.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Christopher R. Goddu for the defendant.

Cathryn A. Neaves, Special Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Present: LENK, GILLERMAN, & COHEN, JJ.

COHEN, J.

The primary issue presented by this appeal is whether an unusual suggestion made by the trial judge in an effort to encourage agreement by a possibly deadlocked jury was coercive to the point of calling for reversal of the defendant's conviction. Although we do not endorse the approach taken by the judge, we conclude that there was no undue coercion. We also reject the defendant's remaining argument, that...

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