Commonwealth v. Jaime J.

On January 14, 1994, the juvenile was found delinquent in the Cambridge District Court juvenile jury session by reason of two armed robberies and murder in the first degree. *269The trial proceedings were intended to be recorded on tape (electronically), rather than by a court reporter. Gaps in the tape, however, rendered portions of the record inaudible and, therefore, unintelligible despite the efforts of the judge and parties to reconstruct it. The juvenile now appeals from his findings of delinquency and the denial of his motion for a new trial. He argues that the record could not be…