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COMMONWEALTH v. WATT

SJC-11693.

484 Mass. 742 (2020)

COMMONWEALTH v. NYASANI WATT (and nine companion cases).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

June 4, 2020.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Elizabeth Doherty for Nyasani Watt.

Ruth Greenberg for Sheldon Mattis.

Dara Z. Kesselheim , Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Thomas H. Townsend & Jeanne M. Kempthorne , Assistant District Attorneys, for district attorney for the northwestern district & another, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

Ryan M. Schiff , for Gary Johnson & another, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

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

A jury in the Superior Court convicted the defendants, Nyasani Watt and Sheldon Mattis, of murder in the first degree, aggravated assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon, and related offenses,2 in connection with a shooting that killed sixteen year old Jaivon Blake and injured fourteen year old Kimoni...

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