Commonwealth v. Dixon

On the evening of June 29, 2004, Fall River police *702officers responded to the report of a domestic disturbance at Ship’s Cove Apartments (Ship’s Cove) and discovered the body of the victim, Rey Davila, underneath his wheelchair in a stairwell. The defendant and another man, Felix Marrero, were charged in separate indictments with murder in the first degree. It was the Commonwealth’s trial theory that the defendant and Marrero engaged in a joint venture to rob the victim and that during the course of that robbery the victim was beaten and pushed down the stairwell where he died.2 A Superior…