Commonwealth v. Dotson

During the afternoon of July 13, 2008, the defendant got into a verbal altercation with her boy friend near her home in the Dorchester section of Boston. Police responded to the scene to restore the peace. On September 5, 2008, a criminal complaint issued against the defendant in the Dorchester Divi*97sion of the Boston Municipal Court Department, charging her with one count of disorderly conduct, G. L. c. 272, § 53, and one count of assault on a police officer, G. L. c. 265, § 13A (a). Following a jury trial on July 21 and 22, 2009, the defendant was found guilty of disorderly conduct and…