Commonwealth v. Almeida

**563 The defendant, Marcelo Almeida, stabbed the victim numerous times with a knife, causing her death. After a jury trial, the defendant was convicted of murder in the first degree on the theories of deliberate premeditation and extreme atrocity or cruelty.

In his appeal, the defendant claims that reversal of his conviction is required because the judge erred by (1) allowing evidence of a prior bad act in which the defendant waited outside the victim's bathroom with a knife and later stated that he would have killed her if she opened the door; (2) permitting the prosecutor to comment in her…