Commonwealth v. Coren

A jury convicted Ricky Coren of murder in the first degree in the killing of his friend, Hosea Lockhardt, on the theory of deliberate premeditation. Coren was also convicted of unlawfully possessing a firearm and ammunition in violation of G. L. c. 269, §§ 10 (a) and (h).1

*724On appeal, Coren claims that the trial judge erred (1) in his jury instructions on circumstantial evidence, accident, and constructive possession; (2) by refusing to instruct the jury on intoxication; (3) by illustrating a point in his jury instruction on deliberate premeditation with a hypothetical situation similar to the…