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That was the question Superior Court Chief Justice Walter H. McLaughlin and a Boston jury faced late last month as testimony unfolded in the trial of Siegfried Golston, an 18-year-old black charged with Salem's murder. Their conclusion may set a far-reaching precedent. For the first time in a criminal case, a jury explicitly stated it had defined death as the cessation of brain activity, a major departure from the traditional definition of death as the absence of breathing and heartbeat that has been in effect in Massachusetts and most other states...