Commonwealth v. Angel Pena-Lara

APPEALS COURT

COMMONWEALTH vs. ANGEL PENA-LARA

Docket:

22-P-592

Dates:

March 11, 2024 – September 10, 2024

Present:

Rubin, Englander, & D'Angelo, JJ.

County:

Suffolk

Keywords:

Evidence, Informer. Witness, Police informer, Privilege. Practice, Criminal, Disclosure of identity of informer, Dismissal.

Complaint received and sworn to in the Dorchester Division of the Boston Municipal Court Department on December 17, 2019.

A motion to dismiss was heard by Lisa Ann Grant, J.

Brooke Hartley, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Zachary Lown for the defendant.

D'ANGELO, J. The Commonwealth appeals from…