Commonwealth v. Long

Gaziano, J,

A Superior Court jury found the defendant guilty of murder in the first degree, on a theory of deliberate premeditation, in the shooting death of the victim, Jamal Vaughn, on January 9, 2006, in Quincy. Before us is the defendant’s appeal from his convictions and from the denial of his motion for a new trial. He claims that his trial counsel’s uninformed decision not to introduce cell site location information (CSLI) to contradict the testimony of a key prosecution witness constituted ineffective assistance of counsel, and that it was error for a motion judge to deny his pretrial…