Commonwealth v. Caceres

The Women’s Resource Center of Greater Lawrence (WRC) appeals from a judgment finding it in civil contempt for failing to respond to a summons for the production of documents pursuant to Mass.R.Crim.P. 17(a)(2), 378 Mass. 885 (1979).1 It claims that the issuance of the subpoena was error on both procedural and substantive grounds.

*748We recite the facts from the record before us.2 On December 17, 2001, a complaint issued from the Lawrence District Court charging the defendant with a single count of indecent assault and battery on a child under the age of fourteen, in violation of G. L. c. 265, §…