One of two men who pumped bullets into a man in Dorchester before a third kicked him got a fair trial and will spend the rest of his life in prison, court concludes

The Supreme Judicial Court today upheld Andrew Robertson's first-degree murder conviction for the shooting death of Romeo McCubbin on Havelock Street on Dec. 14, 2013.

The court concluded that while the prosecutor in Robertson's second trial - the first ended in a mistrial - did make a mistake during closing by referring to some evidence he shouldn't have, it was only a minor error that did not influence the jury's deliberations. And the fact that one of Robertson's three co-defendants lunged at him after the jury announced its verdict was unfortunate, but it also didn't affect the jury's deliberations, given that they had just finished giving their verdict, the court said.

According to the court's summary of the case, McCubbin was sitting in an SUV on Havelock Street around 1:45 a.m. when Robertson walked up to McCubbin's driver's side window and fired multiple shots. McCubbin's vehicle rolled forward, he fell out of the SUV and Robertson jumped back into the passenger side of a waiting vehicle, which sped off.

A second person then runs up and shoots the prone victim multiple times; a third person then kicks the victim once.