COMMONWEALTH v. TAYLOR

No. SJC-11398.

469 Mass. 516 (2014)

COMMONWEALTH v. RODRICK JAMES TAYLOR.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

August 29, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Chauncey B. Wood ( John Swomley with him) for the defendant.

Sarah H. Montgomery & Kathleen Celio , Assistant District Attorneys ( Edmond J. Zabin , Assistant District Attorney, with them) for the Commonwealth.

Benjamin H. Keehn , Committee for Public Counsel Services, for Committee for Public Counsel Services, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

William M. Jay , of the District of Columbia, Paul F. Ware, Jr. , Joshua M. Daniels , & Kevin P. Martin , for Boston Bar Association, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: IRELAND, C.J., SPINA, CORDY, BOTSFORD, GANTS, DUFFLY, & LENK, JJ.


LENK, J.

The defendant appeals from his conviction of murder in the second degree. He maintains both that a Superior Court judge erred in denying his motion to dismiss for lack of a speedy trial pursuant to Mass. R. Crim. P. 36 (b), as amended, 422 Mass. 1503 (1996), and that errors in the prosecutor's closing argument require reversal.

As to the speedy trial claim, the judge did not abuse his discretion in denying the defendant's motion to dismiss under Mass...

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