Commonwealth v. Carpinto

This is an appeal by the defendant from his convictions for making annoying telephone calls in violation of G. L. c. 269, § 14A, and for threatening to commit a crime. See G. L. c. 275, § 2. The jury returned not guilty verdicts on other complaints charging him with threatening to commit a crime and with intimidating a witness. On appeal, the defendant claims that the trial judge committed error in (1) admitting in evidence an audiotape of a telephone call allegedly placed by the defendant and (2) allowing the victim and the defendant’s parole officer to provide testimony identifying the…