Commonwealth v. Richard Dilworth

Summary

The court affirmed dismissal with prejudice of the firearm indictments as a sanction for the Commonwealth's deliberate refusal to comply with an order requiring disclosure of undercover Snapchat usernames and profile images. It held that the defendant's proposed equal protection challenge to racially discriminatory social-media monitoring was governed by the less stringent standard for selective law enforcement, that the Commonwealth had not established a privilege justifying nondisclosure on the record, and that dismissal was within the judge's discretion because no reasonable alternative remedy was offered.