Commonwealth v. Gilbert

A jury in the Superior Court convicted the defendant of murder in the first degree on the ground of deliberate premeditation. Represented by new counsel on appeal, the defendant argues that the judge erred in denying his motion for a required finding of not guilty, filed at the end of the Commonwealth’s case and renewed at the conclusion of the trial. The defendant also argues that the judge erred in three instances in excluding evidence and that the prosecutor’s closing argument contained improper and prejudicial remarks. If these claims are rejected, the defendant asks that we *864exercise our…