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COMMONWEALTH v. SHEPHERD

SJC-12405.

493 Mass. 512 (2024)

COMMONWEALTH v. RASHAD SHEPHERD.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Essex.

February 22, 2024.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Claudia Leis Bolgen for the defendant.

Kathryn L. Janssen , Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Duke K. McCall, III, & Kayla Stachniak Kaplan, of the District of Columbia, Caitlin Glass, Joshua M. Daniels, & Vanessa M. Brown, for Boston University Center for Antiracist Research & others, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

Jessie J. Rossman & Isabel Burlingame, for American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, Inc., amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

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

In August 2014, Terrence Tyler, Monique Jones, and the defendant, Rashad Shepherd, hatched a plan to rob the victim, Wilner Parisse. The scheme involved Jones, who had a sexual relationship with the victim and frequently purchased marijuana from him, proposing a sexual tryst as a ruse to lure the victim into a vulnerable position,...

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