Commonwealth v. Kelly

The defendant, Marguerite Kelly, was convicted after a jury-waived trial of knowingly making a false report of a motor vehicle theft pursuant to G. L. c. 268, § 39.1 The only issue on appeal is whether the defendant’s signature on a stolen motor vehicle report constitutes a “written statement,” as required *752under the applicable statute, when a police officer completed the remaining sections of the report. We affirm.

Facts. In the middle of the night on February 3, 2006, and after having left a bar, Matthew Jones, accompanied by his friend Shawn Parks, visited the defendant at her apartment in…