Commonwealth v. Companonio

The defendant was convicted in 1987 of murder in the first degree. In 2005, this court affirmed the conviction as well as several trial court orders on postconviction motions. Commonwealth v. Companonio, 445 Mass. 39 (2005). The defendant has since filed additional motions in the trial court seeking postconviction relief, all of which have been denied. In December, 2014, a single justice of this court denied the defendant’s application for leave to appeal from the denial of his most recent motion. See G. L. c. 278, § 33E. The single justice concluded that the defendant’s claims were not “new…