Commonwealth v. Thomas

OPINION

Justice McCAFFERY.

This is a direct appeal from a judgment of sentence of death on one count of first-degree murder. We affirm.

On September 18, 2007, a jury found Donte Thomas (“Appellant”) guilty of first-degree murder in the February 3, 2006 shooting death of Tyreese Gaymon a/k/a Tyreese Allen (“Gaymon/Allen”).1 The *335Commonwealth’s theory of the case was that Appellant shot Gaymon/Allen at the behest of Appellant’s friend Kareem Glass, also known as “Gus” (“Glass/Gus”), because Gaymon/Allen had identified Glass/ Gus as the individual responsible for the shooting death of Gaymon/Allen’s…