Commonwealth v. Echavarria

Lowy, David A., J.

In January 1996, an Essex County jury convicted the defendant, Angel Echavar-ria, of murder in the first degree in the shooting death of Daniel Rodriguez. He was sentenced to life imprisonment in State Prison, and the Supreme Judicial *643Court upheld his conviction on December 22, 1998. Commonwealth v. Echavarria, 428 Mass. 593 (1998).

This matter is before the court on the defendant’s motion for new trial, pursuant to Mass.R.Crim.P. 30(b). The defendant claims that the interests of justice require that he be granted a new trial, due to ineffective assistance of counsel, the…