Commonwealth v. Diaz

The defendant was convicted of murder in the first degree of two men and given consecutive terms of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. He was also convicted of unlawfully carrying a firearm. The evidence indicated that the defendant had sold drugs as part of a drug operation in Holyoke headed by Pedro Ramos and had participated in the killings to avenge wrongs to Ramos or his enterprise thought to have been committed by the victims. The defendant does not challenge the sufficiency of the evidence to warrant his convictions.

The defendant objects to the denial of his motion to…