Commonwealth v. Warren

SPAETH, Judge:

Appellant was convicted of rape, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, and robbery. On this appeal he raises five points of error.(1)

Appellant contends that the trial court’s review of the evidence was biased and prejudicial in two respects: The court did not adequately review inconsistencies in the prosecutrix’s three versions of the incident in question (versions given in a statement to a detective, at preliminary hearing, and at trial); and the court’s brief reference to the inconsistencies amounted to rehabilitation of the prosecutrix.

We note first that counsel for…