Case ID: mass-app-ct_8/html/0902-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Commonwealth vs. Raymond C. Whalen.
    September 17, 1979.
    The case was submitted on briefs.
    
      William J. Brown, Jr., & Stephen Levine for the defendant.
    
      Matthew J. Ryan, Jr., District Attorney, & William T. Walsh, Jr., Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.
   1. The first argued exception raises only the question whether the trial judge was required as matter of law to declare a mistrial due to the Commonwealth’s failure to furnish the defendant with a copy of the written pretrial statement of the witness Hughes where the Commonwealth’s failure to comply in that respect with the court’s pretrial order requiring the furnishing of any such statements was based on the police department’s having lost the statement in question. The answer is, "No.” 2. The judge did not abuse his discretion in denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial, particularly in light of his finding that the only allegedly newly discovered evidence of any particular relevance was not to be credited. See Commonwealth v. Dascalakis, 246 Mass. 12, 32-33 (1923); Commonwealth v. Robertson, 357 Mass. 559, 562 (1970).

Judgment affirmed.