Commonwealth v. Lewinski

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a trial judge may condition the right of the defendant to secure statements of witnesses on reciprocal delivery by the defendant
• recognizing that witness remarks commingled with prosecutor’s work product could be reason for denial of discovery request
• ruling that a defendant may move for discovery of the relevant prior written statements of prosecution witnesses, and that if the motion is granted the statements must be delivered to defense counsel not later than the close of the witnesses’ testimony
• “Written statements and the substance of any oral statements of a defendant, available to the prosecution, shall be delivered as matter of course to counsel for that defendant. . .”
• “[T]he substance of any oral statements of a defendant, available to the prosecution, shall be delivered as matter of course . . . not later than the commencement of trial”
• “The judge may condition the right of the defense to secure a witness’s statement from the prosecution, on the reciprocal discovery by the defense to the prosecution of all or part of a statement by the same witness given to the defense”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).