Commonwealth v. Richardson

Wilkins, CJ.

The defendant appeals from his convictions of deliberately premeditated murder in the first degree and of unlawful possession of a firearm. He raises a variety of issues on appeal. We affirm the convictions.

The jury would have been warranted in finding that on June 6, 1991, the defendant shot the victim near the back door of an apartment in which the victim lived in the Roxbury section of Boston. The only contested issue at trial was the identity of the killer. The victim’s “common-law wife,” who had seen the defendant in the neighborhood before, identified the defendant as the…