COMMONWEALTH v. FRITH

No. SJC-10627.

458 Mass. 434 (2010)

COMMONWEALTH v. ELLEN FRITH & another.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

December 9, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bethany Stevens , Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Daniel Beck for Ellen Frith.

Present: MARSHALL, C.J., IRELAND, SPINA, COWIN, CORDY, BOTSFORD, & GANTS, JJ.


SPINA, J.

In the present case, here on a reservation and report by a single justice of this court, we consider whether a judge in the Cambridge Division of the District Court Department (District Court) abused his discretion when he imposed a $5,000 sanction on the Commonwealth for violating Mass. R. Crim. P. 14 (a) (3), as appearing in 442 Mass. 1518 (2004), by failing to inquire of police as to the existence of discoverable...

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