Commonwealth v. Olsen

The victim, Neil Olsen, died as a result of blunt force trauma and multiple gunshot wounds inflicted by the *285defendant’s son, the victim’s stepson, on the evening of January 9, 2005. Thereafter, in connection with this killing, a jury convicted the defendant of murder in the first degree, as a joint venturer, on the theories of deliberate premeditation and extreme atrocity or cruelty. Represented by new counsel on appeal, the defendant argues that the trial judge erred in excluding evidence of the defendant’s son’s reputation for lying, and in admitting testimony of the medical examiner…