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COMMONWEALTH v. GAINES

No. SJC-13446.

240 N.E.3d 193 (2024)

494 Mass. 525

COMMONWEALTH, v. Raymond GAINES.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

August 29, 2024.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The following submitted briefs for amici curiae:

David Lewis, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Merritt Schnipper for the defendant.

Chauncey B. Wood, Kevin S. Prussia, Madeleine Laupheimer, Asma S. Jaber, & Kaylee Y. Ding for Massachusetts Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.

Isabel Burlingame & Jessica J. Lewis for American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Massachusetts, Inc.

Matthew A. Wasserman & Lauren J. Gottesman, of New York, William Davison, Yana Grishkan, Elizabeth Foley, Sharon Beckman, & Radha Natarajan for Innocence Project, Inc., & others.

Katharine Naples-Mitchell for Criminal Justice Institute at Harvard Law School & another.

Present: Budd, C.J., Gaziano, Kafker, Wendlandt, Georges, & Dewar, JJ.

On December 10, 1974, Peter Sulfaro (victim) was shot and killed in his shoe repair shop during the course of an armed robbery. His fifteen year old son, Paul Sulfaro (Sulfaro or victim's son), was the only witness to his murder. In the aftermath, three men were convicted of armed robbery...

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