Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Baran
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided May 15, 2009No. 07-P-1096PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtLenk, J.
The defendant was convicted in 1985 of multiple counts of rape of a child and indecent assault and battery on a child under the age of fourteen. His convictions were affirmed on direct appeal in 1986. Before us is the Commonwealth’s appeal from the allowance, in 2006, of the defendant’s first motion for new trial. We affirm the order of the motion judge.
I. Introduction. In 1984, the then nineteen year old Bernard Baran was working as a teacher’s assistant at a preschool day care center in Pittsfield known as the Early Childhood Development Center (ECDC). Over a several week period that…
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