Commonwealth v. Ware

**717*31Shots were fired into a crowd attending an outdoor baby shower in Brockton around 11 P.M. on April 25, 2009. Multiple people were injured, and one person was killed. A jury convicted the defendant of murder in the first degree on a theory of deliberate premeditation.1 We have consolidated the defendant's appeal from his convictions with his appeal from the denial of his motion for a new trial.

State police Trooper Robert F. Clements, Jr., who was assigned to the district attorney's office, testified at trial that the defendant told police during two separate interviews that he was…