Commonwealth v. Santos

The sole issue presented by these appeals is whether the defendant’s constitutional right to confront and cross-examine an adverse witness was restricted by the judge’s refusal to permit the complainant to be impeached by a juvenile record which had been sealed pursuant to G. L. c. 276, § 100B. We affirm the convictions.

Santos was convicted on seven counts of rape and unnatural sexual intercourse and one count of kidnapping. He was sentenced to seven concurrent seventeen to twenty-year terms for the rape and unnatural sexual intercourse and to eight to ten years concurrent on the kidnapping…