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COMMONWEALTH v. YASIN

SJC-12568.

483 Mass. 343 (2019)

COMMONWEALTH v. ABDULLAH YASIN.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

October 16, 2019.

Corrected October 25, 2019.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Houston Armstrong , Assistant District Attorney ( Tara B. Burdman , Assistant District Attorney, also present) for the Commonwealth.

James L. Sultan ( Kerry A. Haberlin also present) for the respondent.

Nancy A. Dolberg , Committee for Public Counsel Services, for Committee for Public Counsel Services, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: GANTS, C.J., LENK, GAZIANO, LOWY, BUDD, CYPHER, & KAFKER, JJ.

At the close of the Commonwealth's case in the defendant's trial for murder in the first degree, the defendant moved for a required finding of not guilty pursuant to Mass. R. Crim. P. 25(a), as amended, 420 Mass. 1502 (1995). Notwithstanding the plain language of rule 25(a), which requires...

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