Commonwealth v. Calvo

The defendant was on probation from several criminal convictions when he was alleged in a new criminal complaint to have committed assault and battery and malicious destruction of property by going to his wife’s mother’s *904residence and beating the wife, who was visiting her mother, and destroying personal property. The defendant was surrendered for a violation of probation. The sole evidence against the defendant at the surrender proceeding was two police reports, one of which related events the night of the beating. On the back of that report was a statement, signed under penalties of perjury…