Commonwealth v. Morgan

Sometime on the afternoon of March 8, 2000, the defendant, Dana H. Morgan (Morgan), received a telephone call from Louis Heinold. Heinold threatened to harm Morgan’s son, Dana John Morgan (who is known as Dane), if Dane did not take the blame for drug possession charges recently filed against Dane and Heinold. That evening, Heinold was stabbed to death in his room. Two years later, Morgan confessed to killing Heinold, a confession he recanted at trial. On October 22, 2003, a jury convicted Morgan of murder in the first degree on the theory of deliberate premeditation and of committing perjury…