Commonwealth v. Montrond

The defendant appeals from his conviction of murder in the first degree1 on a theory of deliberate premeditation in the shooting death of Carlita Chaney on August 16, 2007, and from the denial of his motion for a new trial. The defendant’s consolidated appeal from his convictions and from the denial of his motion for a new trial first came before this court in November, 2014, when, following oral argument, we stayed the appeal and remanded the matter to the Superior Court to conduct an eviden-tiary hearing concerning the defendant’s ineffective assistance of counsel claim and the location of…