Commonwealth v. Brady

After the defendants, Paul Brady and Marilyn Coussoule, waived their rights to a trial by jury on complaints charging them with larceny of property having a value in excess of $250, see G. L. c. 266, § 30, witnesses were sworn and the trial began. The charges arose out of the defendants’ alleged removal of an ornate door from a showroom and warehouse they had occupied. Doormakers by trade, the defendants had *785installed the door when they first occupied the premises. The Commonwealth claimed that they had removed it upon their eviction, replacing it with an ill-fitting door of far less…