Commonwealth v. Ferreira

**642 In the early morning of October 2, 2009, the victim, Sheila dos Santos, was stabbed to death near the back entrance to her apartment building. A Superior Court jury convicted the defendant, her former boyfriend, of murder in the first degree on the theories of deliberate premeditation and extreme atrocity or cruelty.

In this consolidated appeal from his conviction and from the denial of his motion for a new trial on the ground of undisclosed exculpatory evidence, the defendant challenges the denial of the motion for a new trial. He argues also that the evidence *283 was insufficient to…