Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Coleman
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided January 30, 1975PublishedCited by 71 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtKaplan, J.
Tried by a Suffolk County jury upon an indictment for first degree murder, the defendant was found guilty of murder in the second degree and sentenced to imprisonment for life. On this appeal subject to G. L. c. 278, §§ 33A-33G, assignments of error upon timely exceptions attack the trial judge’s denial of motions for production of grand jury minutes and for a directed verdict. The defendant also assigns error upon various rulings and instructions at trial, and upon parts of the prosecutor’s closing argument to the jury, but no exceptions were taken at the time. It is the defendant’s present…
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