Commonwealth v. Fragata

**121A District Court jury convicted the defendant, Joseph Fragata, of intimidating a witness in violation of G. L. c. 268, § 13B, in connection with an incident of alleged domestic violence.

**1221 The statute, as relevant here, provides:

"Whoever, directly or indirectly, willfully ... attempts or causes physical *299injury ... [or] intimidates ... another person who is ... a witness or potential witness at any stage of a criminal investigation, ... or other criminal proceeding of any type ... with the intent to impede, obstruct, delay, harm, punish or otherwise interfere thereby, or do so with…