Commonwealth v. Carrington

After a jury trial on an indictment charging murder in the first degree, the defendant was convicted of murder in the second degree of Celestine Walker. He also appeals his conviction of violating a G. L. c. 209A abuse prevention order.2 On appeal, he claims his motions to dismiss and to suppress were improperly denied, improper bad acts were admitted in evidence, and that he was improperly denied a Bowden instruction.3 We affirm.

1. Motion to dismiss. The defendant claims that the motion judge should have allowed his motion to dismiss the indictments because the omission of Ashia Reese's…