Commonwealth v. Tweedy

On appeal from his convictions on indictments charging him with two counts of rape and abuse of a child under sixteen years of age and five counts of indecent assault and battery on a child under fourteen years of age, the defendant *57argues that the judge erroneously excluded several statements of the victim which he claims demonstrated her bias against him and his family. The judge excluded verbatim accounts of the victim’s statements, most of which included very vulgar language, on the basis that there was more than sufficient evidence of the hostility between the victim’s family and the…