Commonwealth v. Leavitt

The defendant was convicted of perjury arising from her testimony before a grand jury. In her capacity as president of Hospital Equipment Services, Inc. (HES), a company which rented and sold durable medical equipment and supplies, the defendant appeared before the grand jury and gave testimony relating to her failure to produce certain subpoenaed business records. Those records were the closed accounts receivable ledger cards which HES maintained on each patient account.

In this court’s decision affirming the defendant’s perjury conviction (see Commonwealth v. Leavitt, 17 Mass. App. Ct. 585…