Commonwealth v. Jones

This case is here on report of a question by a Superior Court judge pursuant to Mass. R. Crim. P. 34 and Mass. R. A. P. 4. In March, 1986, a Hampden County grand jury indicted the defendant, James Jones, on three counts of indecent assault and battery of a child under fourteen years of age, two counts of rape of a child by force, and one count of threat to do bodily harm. The defendant allegedly sexually *340abused the three minor children, ages four, five, and ten, of the woman with whom he was living.

In October, 1986, the defendant filed in the Superior Court two pretrial discovery motions: (1)…