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COMMONWEALTH v. WANIS

426 Mass. 639 (1998)

COMMONWEALTH v. RAMI WANIS & others (and a companion case).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

February 5, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Susan M. Prosnitz for the Boston Police Department.

John P. Zanini, Assistant District Attorney, for the plaintiff. Eva S. Nilsen for Louis J. Gordon.

Connie Karassas, for Rami Wanis, & Jeffrey Travaline, for Filipe Monteiro, were present but did not argue.

The following submitted briefs for amici curiae:

Carol A. Donovan & John F. Palmer for Committee for Public Counsel Services & another.

Scott Harshbarger, Attorney General, & William J. Meade, Assistant Attorney General, for the Attorney General.

Present: WILKINS, C.J., ABRAMS, LYNCH, GREANEY, FRIED, MARSHALL, & IRELAND, JJ.

WILKINS, C.J.

This is the first of two cases we decide today concerning the right of a criminal defendant to obtain an order requiring the production of records of the internal affairs division of a police department. See Commonwealth v. Rodriguez, post 647 (1998). The defendants were arrested and charged with certain crimes arising out of the same incident. One defendant filed a complaint with the Boston police department against one of the police officers...

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