Commonwealth v. Epshod Jeune

Summary

The court affirmed the defendant's murder, armed robbery, home invasion, and armed assault convictions, while concluding that the firearm-possession conviction required vacatur and a new trial because the Commonwealth neither instructed nor presented evidence concerning the defendant's lack of a firearms license. The court also vacated the duplicative attempted armed robbery conviction. It held that the remaining alleged errors—including juror dismissals, improper identification testimony, malice instructions, and refusal to give an accident instruction—did not warrant reversal, and it declined to reduce the murder conviction under the court's extraordinary review authority.