COMMONWEALTH v. KELLY

No. SJC-11616.

470 Mass. 682 (2015)

COMMONWEALTH v. AMANDA KELLY (and eleven companion cases).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Plymouth.

February 20, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kirsten A. Zwicker Young ( Glen A. Tagliamonte with her) for Amanda Kelly.

Meghan E. Tafe Vadakekalam for Christopher M. Bratlie.

Thomas C. Foley for Kevin P. Shdeed.

Kristin Freeman , Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Steven M. Freeman , Melissa Garlick , Lauren A. Jones , & Seth M. Marnin , of New York, & Michael N. Sheetz & Adam S. Gershenson , for Anti-Defamation League & others, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

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


This case arises from events that transpired shortly after midnight on June 12, 2008, during a house party in Marshfield where multiple guests, who are Caucasian, committed acts of physical violence against Tizaya Robinson, who is African-American. Following a jury trial in the Superior Court, the defendant, Amanda Kelly, was convicted...

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