Legal Opinion
Neverson v. Bissonnette
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided August 20, 2001No. 00-1044PublishedCited by 54 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
In 1987, a Hampden County, Massachusetts grand jury indicted petitioner-appellant Trevor Neverson, a native of Trinidad, for the murder of his fifteen-month-old stepdaughter, Leshawna Wright. His first trial resulted in a court-ordered judgment of acquittal as to so much of the indictment as alleged first-degree murder. The trial judge sent the remaining charges (second-degree murder and the lesser included offense of manslaughter) to the jury. The jury deadlocked and the judge declared a mistrial. The petitioner’s subsequent attempts to terminate the case on grounds of…
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