Commonwealth v. Alcide
Annotate this CaseAfter a jury trial, Defendant was convicted of murder in the first degree on a theory of deliberate premeditation. Defendant filed a motion for a new trial, asserting that his trial counsel provided ineffective assistance. The trial judge denied the motion. The Supreme Judicial Court vacated Defendant’s conviction and remanded for a new trial, holding that Defendant’s counsel did not prepare for trial in an adequate manner and that counsel’s deficient performance at trial, where Defendant’s defense was presented “poorly and incompletely,” created a substantial likelihood of a miscarriage of justice.
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