Commonwealth v. Amran

After a jury trial, Defendant was convicted of killing his wife with deliberate premeditation. The Supreme Judicial Court affirmed the conviction and declined to exercise its powers under Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 278, 33E, holding that the trial court did not err in (1) admitting two postmortem photographs depicting the victim’s body; (2) failing to grant a mistrial after the medical examiner testified that the victim’s death was a homicide, when the defense was that it was a suicide, where the judge promptly struck the improper testimony and gave a highly specific curative instruction; (3) admitting Defendant’s statements to police with no redactions; and (4) failing to conduct a voir dire of jurors after at least one juror had been exposed to prejudicial extraneous material. View "Commonwealth v. Amran" on Justia Law