Word: courtly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
Friends of Andrew P. Puopolo '77, killed in 1976 in Boston's Combat Zone, reacted with mixed feelings yesterday to the news that the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has granted a new trial to the three men convicted two years ago of murdering Puopolo...
...Court granted the new trial because district attorney Thomas J. Mundy, prosecutor for the case, used peremptory challenges to eliminate black jurors. The three defendants--all of them black--were convicted of murdering Puopolo...
...acquaintance of Puopolo, who asked to remain anonymous, agreed with the court's decision to grant a new trial. The first trial was "a farce" and was "handled with the usual Boston racial overtones," the student said...