MURRELL v. COMMONWEALTH

SJC-10468.

454 Mass. 1020 (2009)

KENYATTA MURRELL v. COMMONWEALTH.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts.

August 20, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Chauncey B. Wood for the petitioner.


The petitioner appeals from a judgment of a single justice of this court denying his petition pursuant to G. L. c. 211, § 3. We affirm.

The petitioner is the defendant in a pending murder trial in the Superior Court for Norfolk County. Looking at census and other data, he discovered an apparent disparity in the percentage of African-Americans living in the county and appearing on the county's lists of prospective jurors. To investigate a possible claim that African...

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