Commonwealth v. Ruano

The defendant appeals from a conviction of influencing a witness by intimidation, G. L. c. 268, § 13B, by a jury of the Superior Court. He asserts insufficiency of the evidence on appeal.

Factual background. As relevant to the issue on appeal, the jury could have found from the evidence introduced by the Common wealth 2 that on July 31, 2010, the defendant and the witness had an altercation. While the underlying reason for the altercation remains unclear from the record, the Commonwealth’s evidence was that the defendant entirely lost control of his temper when he believed the witness’s motor…