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COMMONWEALTH vs. Keith WINFIELD.
SJC-11288.
Middlesex. Nov. 8, 2012. - March 18, 2013.
Constitutional Law, Access to court proceedings. Court Reporter. Waiver.
INDICTMENTS found and returned in the Superior Court Department on August 1, 2006. A posttrial motion for an order allowing access to audio recordings of trial testimony was heard by Kathe M. Tuttman, J.
The Supreme Judicial Court on its own initiative transferred the case from the Appeals Court.
Jonathan M. Albano (John Reinstein with him) for Steve Audette.
Fawn D. Balliro Andersen, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.
Present: Ireland, C.J., Spina, Cordy, Botsford, Gants, Duffly, & Lenk, JJ.
GANTS, J.