Commonwealth v. Light

The Commonwealth withheld material, exculpatory evidence from the defendant before and during her bench trial in the Plymouth District Court. She was charged on a complaint with going away, after knowingly colliding with a motor vehicle, without making known her name, residence, and the registration number of her vehicle. G. L. c. 90, § 24.

The charge arose in connection with an alleged collision on November 4, 1982, between a motor vehicle operated by the *113defendant and a police cruiser owned by the town of Marshfield, parked on a way in that town. Well before the District Court bench trial on…