Commonwealth v. Abernathy

Following a jury trial in the District Court, the defendant, Barbara Abernathy, was convicted of eight counts of disturbing the peace, six counts of violation of a harassment prevention order, two counts of criminal harassment, and one count of filing a false police report.2 On appeal, the defendant claims that (1) she had the ineffective assistance of counsel; (2) it was error to admit prior bad act evidence; (3) the judge failed to instruct the jury on prior bad act evidence; (4) it was error to admit the unredacted harassment prevention order; (5) the judge improperly admitted certain…