COMMONWEALTH v. ROBINSON-VAN RADER

SJC-13329.

492 Mass. 1 (2023)

COMMONWEALTH v. MICHAEL ROBINSON-VAN RADER.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts.

May 15, 2023.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John P. Warren for the defendant.

Kathryn Sherman , Assistant District Attorney ( Michelle Slade , Assistant District Attorney, also present) for the Commonwealth.

Chauncey B. Wood , Kevin S. Prussia , Timothy A. Cook , Asma S. Jaber , & Douglas J. Plume , for Massachusetts Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Katharine Naples-Mitchell , Audrey Murillo , & Radha Natarajan , for Criminal Justice Institute at Harvard Law School & another, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

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


In the early evening of April 23, 2018, Boston police officers received reports of gunfire in a neighborhood near their headquarters. Approximately seven minutes later, three officers patrolling in an unmarked vehicle encountered two young Black men, the defendant and J.H. (a juvenile), walking away from the location where shots had...

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