Commonwealth v. Carrion

The defendant was indicted for murder in the first degree in the stabbing death of Melvin Pina, Jr. (the victim). After a nine-day trial in Superior Court, a jury convicted the defendant of the lesser-included offense of murder in the second degree. On appeal, the defendant argues that his pretrial motion to suppress certain evidence should have been allowed, and that his trial counsel was ineffective for failing to re-raise the suppression issue at trial. The defendant also argues that the Commonwealth's evidence at trial was insufficient to support his conviction for murder in the second…