Commonwealth v. Braica

After yelling and cursing out his window at his next door neighbor and filing a barrage of complaints with government officials about her activities on her property, the defendant, Kenneth J. Braica, was convicted of criminal harassment in violation of G. L. c. 265, § 43A(a). The defendant claims that the nasty remarks he yelled from his window were insufficient to support the conviction, and that the complaints to government officials could not be relied on to prove criminal harassment. The Commonwealth contends that the remarks were sufficient to prove criminal harassment without…