Commonwealth v. Brown

The defendant, a physician, appeals from his convictions on multiple charges of illegally prescribing controlled substances in violation of G. L. c. 94C, §§ 32A(a) and 32B(a),1 *76from his convictions of submitting false medical claims in violation of G. L. c. 118E, § 40(2), and from his conviction of larceny of an amount in excess of $250.2,3 All except two of the indictments were tried to a jury. Subsequent to the jury trial, the same judge heard the remaining two indictments. These two charged drug offenses and were dependent on the admission of an audio-video recording that the defendant…