Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court June 13, 2011 (Commonwealth v. Lao)

Spina, J.

The defendant appeals from his conviction of the deliberately premeditated murder of his estranged wife in May, 2000. He asserts error in (1) the admission of evidence of a conversation between the victim and their daughter that supplied motive for the murder; (2) the denial of his motion for a mistrial arising out of a witness’s unanticipated change in her testimony, and the disclosure