TAYLOR v. MEDEIROS

No. 19-1552.

983 F.3d 566 (2020)

Roderick TAYLOR, Petitioner, Appellant, v. Sean MEDEIROS, Respondent, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

December 23, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dany Allan Curhan for appellant.

Anna Esther Lumelsky , Assistant Attorney General, Massachusetts Attorney General's Office, with whom Matthew P. Landry , Assistant Attorney General, Massachusetts Attorney General's Office, was on brief, for appellee.

Before Howard, Chief Judge, Lynch and Lipez, Circuit Judges.


Following a nearly eight-week jury trial in Massachusetts state court, Roderick Taylor was convicted of murder in the second degree and sentenced to a mandatory term of life imprisonment. Taylor claims that his trial was fundamentally unfair in violation of his federal constitutional right to due process because the prosecutor...

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