Commonwealth v. Lewin

This case involves perfidious Boston police officers whose perjurious and fraudulent conduct has threatened the Commonwealth’s right to try the defendant for the murder of Detective Sherman C. Griffiths of the Boston police department. A Superior Court judge concluded that the indictments against the defendant had to be dismissed for failure of the Commonwealth to produce a witness whose testimony would *567have aided the defense. The Commonwealth then sought reconsideration of the dismissals, presenting facts to the judge tending to show that the exculpatory witness in fact had never existed.…