Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Bastarache
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided December 12, 1980PublishedCited by 116 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtWilkins, J.
In its broader significance, this appeal from the defendant’s conviction of manslaughter concerns the legality of the composition of the grand jury that indicted him and the petit jury that tried him. In brief, the defend ant challenges the underrepresentation of persons between the ages of eighteen and thirty-four, inclusive, on municipal jury lists from which his grand and petit juries were derived. The Appeals Court held that the Commonwealth had failed to rebut the defendant’s prima facie case that “a sufficiently large and distinct group of people in Franklin County…
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