Commonwealth v. Cohen

After a jury trial in a District Court, the defendant was convicted of operating to endanger and operating after suspension of his license. His principal contention on appeal relates to a comment made by the judge in the presence of the jury while defense counsel was cross-examining a Commonwealth witness about her opinion of the defendant’s speed just before the collision. The witness, who had been operating her vehicle (not one of the two vehicles involved in the collision) at approximately sixty-five miles per hour on Route 495 in Menimac, had testified on direct examination that the…