Commonwealth v. Douzanis

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• requiring something more than \naked claim\ that affiant fabricated information before ordering Franks/Amral hearing
• substantial preliminary showing required; factual errors in affidavit concerning information furnished by informant generally insufficient to require Franks hearing
• Commonwealth may seek discretionary relief from single justice of this court as to disclosure order
• dismissal of indictment may be proper remedy for Commonwealth’s failure to comply with discovery order
• “government’s privilege not to disclose the identity of an informant has long been recognized in this Commonwealth”
• “except in an in camera proceeding,” judge should not require “disclosure of the identity of an informant. . . without some reason apparent on the record”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).