COMMONWEALTH v. FISHER

SJC-13340.

492 Mass. 823 (2023)

COMMONWEALTH v. DERRELL FISHER.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts.

September 20, 2023.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Chauncey Wood ( Caroline Alpert & Danya Fullerton also present) for the defendant.

Christa Elliott , Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Caitlin Glass & Joshua M. Daniels , for Boston University Center for Antiracist Research & others, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

Anton Robinson , Daniel B. Goldman , & Steven Rivera , of New York, & Radha Natarajan , for New England Innocence Project & another, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

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


From the night of July 1, 2015, to the early hours of the morning on July 2, Derrell Fisher, the defendant, and Epshod Jeune, his codefendant,1 engaged in a scheme to rob women they found advertising sexual services on a website (Backpage). After one successful robbery of a victim at a Woburn hotel, the defendant...

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