Commonwealth v. Rezac

Summary

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court affirmed the defendant Jean Rezac’s convictions for reckless endangerment of a child and witness intimidation and upheld the GPS monitoring condition of her probation. The Court rejected the defendant’s arguments that the criminal‑responsibility standard was misapplied, that the evidence was insufficient, that the indictment was ambiguous, and that the GPS condition violated her privacy rights. The Court reiterated the two‑pronged Model Penal Code standard for criminal responsibility and found the Commonwealth met its burden on the post‑attack conduct. The decision also held that a single indictment may cover multiple theories of the same offense and that GPS monitoring is a permissible probation condition.