COMMONWEALTH v. DRAGOTTA

SJC-12186.

476 Mass. 680 (2017)

COMMONWEALTH v. HEATHER DRAGOTTA.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Essex.

March 21, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patrick Levin , Committee for Public Counsel Services, for the defendant.

Marcia H. Slingerland , Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Present (Sitting at Lawrence): GANTS, C.J., BOTSFORD, LENK, HINES, GAZIANO, LOWY, & BUDD, JJ.


After a jury-waived trial, Heather Dragotta was convicted on one indictment charging her with wantonly or recklessly permitting another person to commit an assault and battery that resulted in bodily injury to her infant daughter (victim).2 G. L. c. 265, § 13J. The injury, an interhemispheric subdural hematoma...

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