Commonwealth v. Ortiz

The jury returned a guilty verdict against the defendant on an indictment charging that she “did knowingly or intentionally manufacture, distribute, or dispense a controlled substance in CLASS B, to wit: COCAINE.” On appeal, she claims the trial judge erred in failing to give a requested instruction on the use of prior inconsistent statements for assessing the credibility of a witness, in giving an instruction to the jury that they were not to consider the quality of the arresting officer’s police report in determining their verdict, and in ruling that the mandatory minimum sentence under G.…