DALTON — Days before going to trial in the alleged rape of a 13-year-old girl, a Berkshires prosecutor was working the phones on a Saturday morning to get her case in order.
Within hours, the trial was off. The Berkshire District Attorney’s office decided that afternoon in November that missteps within the Dalton Police Department, including what it believed to be a failure to track and preserve evidence, left it no choice but to drop charges.
Instead
