COMMONWEALTH v. EVELYN

SJC-12808.

485 Mass. 691 (2020)

COMMONWEALTH, v. TYKORIE EVELYN.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

September 17, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

K. Hayne Barnwell ( Janice Bassil also present) for the defendant.

Cailin M. Campbell , Assistant District Attorney ( David S. Bradley , Assistant District Attorney, also present) for the Commonwealth.

The following submitted briefs for amici curiae:

Katherine E. Burdick for Juvenile Law Center & others.

Jin Hee Lee & Ashok Chandran , of New York, & Katharine Naples-Mitchell for Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice & another.

Anthony Mirenda , Neil Austin , Rachel C. Hutchinson , & Ned Melanson for Massachusetts Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers & others.

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


Thirteen minutes after a shooting, and one half-mile away, two police officers encountered the defendant walking on the sidewalk. They drove slowly alongside him for approximately one hundred yards, while he repeatedly rebuffed their attempts to speak with him. When one of the officers started to get out of the cruiser, the defendant...

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