In 2003, an Essex County jury convicted the defendant of murder in the first degree. The defendant appealed. He argues that the trial judge erred by failing specifically to inquire of the venire their understanding of the presumption of innocence pursuant to G. L. c. 234, § 28, by allowing a portion of a witness's grand jury testimony to be read to the jury for substantive purposes, and by instructing the...
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