Commonwealth v. Curtiss

According to the complainant (a mentally handicapped black woman), a white man took her into his car, pulled off her undergarments, and sexually assaulted her, stopping only after two acts of forced intercourse. Afterwards, he drove her across the Massachusetts border, leaving her in a rural part of New Lebanon, New York. The next morning, she told Pittsfield police officers that the defendant was the rapist. Two days later, the police arrested the defendant and advised him of the accusations. He offered a different version of the events: their initial meeting took place at a local pub in *351Pitt…