Commonwealth v. Amran

The defendant was convicted of killing his wife with deliberate premeditation. On appeal he alleges error in (1) the admission of photographs prejudicially depicting the victim’s body in an advanced state of decomposition, and lacking any relevance to any issue at trial; (2) the failure to grant a mistrial after the medical examiner testified that the victim’s death was a homicide, when the defense was that it was a suicide; (3) the admission of the defendant’s statement to police with no redactions of (i) inadmissible accusations by police, (ii) assertions that police had inculpatory…