BERNARD v. COMMONWEALTH


424 Mass. 32 (1996)

GILBERT M. BERNARD v. COMMONWEALTH & another (and a companion case).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

December 27, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Timothy M. Burke for Gilbert M. Bernard.

Willie J. Davis for Thomas Lloyd, Jr.

Marguerite T. Grant, Assistant District Attorney (Kerry Ahern, Assistant District Attorney, with her) for the Commonwealth.

Present: WILKINS, C.J., ABRAMS, LYNCH, GREANBY, & FRIED, JJ.


LYNCH, J.

Gilbert M. Bernard (petitioner), a State police trooper, petitioned a judge in the Cambridge Division of the District Court Department for a protective order pursuant to Mass. R. Crim. P. 14 (a) (6), 378 Mass. 874 (1979).3 The petitioner asserted that his conversations with Trooper Thomas Lloyd, Jr., the defendant in an underlying criminal case, were protected under G. L. c. 112, §...

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