Commonwealth v. Carapellucci

The defendant was convicted by a jury of six of the motor vehicle offenses of operating with a suspended license, leaving the scene of an accident involving personal injury, and leaving the scene of an accident involving property damage.1 We transferred his appeal to this court on our own motion. We reverse the judgments of conviction and order that the complaint against the defendant be dismissed because the police failed to comply with G. L. c. 90C, § 2.

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Early in the morning of April 25, 1996, Boston police officers *580patrolling the Charlestown section of Boston were forced to brake suddenly…