Zagranski v. Commonwealth

The petitioner, Richard Zagranski, was convicted of murder in the first degree in 1989. We affirmed the conviction. See Commonwealth v. Zagranski. 408 Mass. 278 (1990). In 2012, Zagranski filed a motion for postconviction relief, claiming that he received ineffective assistance of trial and appellate counsel and seeking, among other things, an order granting him a new trial, an order vacating his conviction, or an order reducing the degree of the offense. He set forth several bases for the ineffective assistance claim including, as is relevant here, that his counsel had a conflict of interest…