Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court March 23, 2001 (Commonwealth v. Jaime)

Ireland, J.

A jury convicted the defendant, Antonio Jaime, of murder in the first degree on the theory of deliberate premeditation. On appeal, the defendant argues that the judge erred in (1) permitting the Commonwealth’s expert to offer hearsay testimony indicating that the defendant had been in a jovial mood the day before the murder and contradicting the defendant’s statement that he had been