Commonwealth v. Joyce

The defendant was convicted by a Superior Court jury of three counts of statutory rape. The defendant appeals, claiming (1) that the trial judge abused his discretion in allowing the admission of certain "prior bad acts" evidence of contemporaneous uncharged conduct, (2) that the trial judge erred in allowing the Commonwealth to amend two counts of the indictment, and (3) that certain statements during the Commonwealth's closing argument were improper and thus require a new trial. We affirm.

1. Background. We recite the material facts as the jury reasonably could have found them, reserving…