Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Sanders
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided June 1, 1981PublishedCited by 80 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBraucher, J.
The defendant, a black man, was convicted of rape, armed burglary, and other charges arising out of the rape and stabbing of a white woman in her apartment on the night of August 30, 1978. The convictions were affirmed by the Appeals Court. 10 Mass. App. Ct. 330 (1980). We granted the defendant’s application for further appellate review to consider the application of G. L. c. 234, § 28, to the interrogation of prospective jurors in such cases. We affirm the convictions, but we direct that in similar trials hereafter jurors are to be examined with respect to racial prejudice, pursuant to the…
2Cases cited18 opinions
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