Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Ruffen
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided May 12, 1987Published
1Opinion of the Court
399 Mass. 811 (1987)
507 N.E.2d 684
COMMONWEALTH
vs.
WILLIAM A. RUFFEN.
Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Essex.
October 6, 1986.
May 12, 1987.
Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., WILKINS, LIACOS, ABRAMS, NOLAN, LYNCH, & O'CONNOR, JJ.
Maureen B. Brodoff, Committee for Public Counsel Services, for the defendant.
Edward F. Connelly, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.
NOLAN, J.
The defendant was convicted of indecent assault and battery on a child under fourteen, rape of a child by force, and unnatural and lascivious acts with a child under sixteen. The Appeals Court affirmed the convictions.…
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