Commonwealth v. Gordon

The defendant was convicted by a jury of six in a District Court after an earlier bench trial by a District Court judge. Following the Appeals Court’s affirmance of the defendant’s convictions of possession of a controlled substance (cocaine) and of operating a motor vehicle negligently so that the lives and safety of the public might be endangered, Commonwealth v. Gordon, 15 Mass. App. Ct. 901 (1982), we allowed his application for further appellate review. The defendant filed a statement of the evidence with the trial court. After “settlement and approval” (with amendments by the…