Commonwealth v. Vinnie

The defendant, Raymond P. Vinnie, was convicted of murder in the first degree. The jury had received instructions on theories of deliberate premeditation and extreme atrocity or cruelty. On appeal, he claims a series of errors by *163the Commonwealth, the trial judge, and his trial counsel. We affirm the conviction and the judge’s ruling on Vinnie’s postcon-viction motion, and we decline to exercise our power under G. L. c. 278, § 33E, to order a new trial or reduce the verdict.

We review those claimed errors that were preserved before or during trial, and those that were resurrected by the judge…