Commonwealth v. Dexter

After a jury-waived trial, the defendant was found guilty of indecent assault and battery but not guilty of additional charges of assault with intent to rape and kidnapping.2 *31His appeal stems from the denial of one of several unsuccessful pretrial motions that he filed, which he styled a Bishop motion. See Commonwealth v. Bishop, 416 Mass. 169 (1993). In that motion he generally sought disclosure of the names of any physicians, psychologists or rape counselors with whom the victim had been in treatment since 1990 and the dates of any such treatment, as well as records pertaining to any…