Commonwealth v. McMullin

Confrontation clause. The defendant argues that the admission of certified copies of records from the Registry of Motor Vehicles and the District Court violated his right to confront the witnesses against him under the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The defendant acknowledges that the admissibility of such records is established by Commonwealth v. Maloney, 447 Mass. 577, 592 (2006), but observes that Maloney rested its analysis of the confrontation clause issue on Commonwealth v. Verde, 444 Mass. 279, 283-284 (2005), and that Verde has since been overturned by the United…