COMMONWEALTH v. DUKE

SJC-12047.

489 Mass. 649 (2022)

COMMONWEALTH v. ASHAWNEE DUKE.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Hampden.

May 11, 2022.

Corrected May 20, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Angela G. Lehman for the defendant.

David L. Sheppard-Brick , Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Present: Budd, C.J., Gaziano, Lowy, Wendlandt, & Georges, JJ.


On December 2, 2012, the defendant and two accomplices attempted to rob Keshawn Dancy at gunpoint. Dancy fought back and got into a physical struggle with one of the robbers, Keogh Collins. Gunfire erupted, and Collins was fatally shot in the head; Dancy suffered a serious wound to the leg. At the defendant's trial in August of 2015...

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