WILKINS, J.
The defendant, convicted of murder in the first degree and represented by new counsel on appeal, correctly points to two substantial errors in the judge's charge concerning manslaughter. The Commonwealth grants that the judge erred but argues that, because the jury found the defendant guilty of deliberately premeditated murder, those errors, not raised adequately before the trial judge, do not create a substantial likelihood that a miscarriage of justice...
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