Commonwealth v. Clifford

Agnes, A.J.

The defendant Lawrence Clifford is charged by indictment with rape of a child. After the completion of all other discovery, defendant moved under Commonwealth v. Bishop, 416 Mass. 169 (1993), for production of treatment records pertaining to the alleged victim that are not in the custody or control of the Commonwealth. After a hearing, the court (Whitehead, J.) allowed the motion and ordered that the record holder either produce the records or assert a basis for withholding the records in keeping with the practice that has been developed in the Essex County Superior Court for…