Commonwealth v. Colon

In the summer of 2005, the victim was beaten and stabbed to death near a set of railroad tracks in Dudley. In 2013, the defendant was convicted by a Superior Court jury of murder in the first degree for his role in the killing. In this direct appeal, the defendant maintains that a new trial is required because the judge did not declare a mistrial after members of the jury were exposed to an extraneous influence, and that the judge committed reversible error by partially excluding the defendant from the subsequent voir dire of the deliberating jury. In addition, the defendant argues that the…