Commonwealth v. Carr

On December 15, 2004, a Superior Court jury convicted the defendant of murder in the first degree on a theory of deliberate premeditation for the fatal shooting of Carlos Ma-tos on August 5, 1974. Although a murder complaint issued against the defendant shortly after the victim’s death, the defendant fled the Commonwealth and was not indicted until 1997. In the interim, he was charged, inter alia, with numerous drug crimes in Indiana and Illinois under various aliases. The Commonwealth again learned of the defendant’s whereabouts in 1994, while he was incarcerated in an Indiana state prison.…