Commonwealth v. Ayoub

The defendant appeals from multiple convictions *564arising from a violent encounter with the police during an investigatory stop. He challenges the empanelment of a particular juror and the prosecutor’s closing argument to the jury. We affirm.

Background. A Superior Court jury could have found the following facts. On December 1, 2006, at about 2:00 a.m., Clark University campus police officer Michael Palermo noticed a yellow car parked on a street comer in Worcester. Officer Palermo believed that the driver of the vehicle, defendant Antoine Ayoub, had been attempting to entice two female college…