Commonwealth v. Stracuzzi

The defendant was tried before a District Court jury of six on complaints charging two counts of failing to stop for a police officer while operating a motor vehicle, two counts of driving to endanger and one count of operating under the influence of liquor. What began (in the *162defendant’s counsel’s opening statement) as a vigorous defense to all of the charges, withered, as to those involving driving to endanger and failing to stop for a police officer, in the face of strong evidence from prosecution witnesses and the defendant herself — so much that the defendant’s counsel in his closing…