Word: allenated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seven-man court decided unanimously Thursday that Leon Easterling, Richard Soares and Richard S. Allen, who are all serving mandatory life sentences, did not receive fair trials because the assistant district attorney, Thomas L. Mundy Jr., misused peremptory challenges...
Henry F. Owens III, Allen's lawyer, called Judge Paul J. Lincos's 41-page majority opinion "a landmark decision, the first time in the history of the Commonwealth that our supreme judicial court has said that a peremptory challenge to exclude blacks systematically violates the constitution...
Owens added that he would ask an appelate court to release Allen on bail next week...
...appellate court grants them bail, the defendants, Leon Easterling, Edward Soares and Richard S. Allen, all convicted of first degree murder on March 24, 1977, could leave Walpole prison soon...
...hope to be in court next week on the question of bail," Henry F. Owens III, Allen's lawyer, said yesterday...