Commonwealth v. LeFave

Wilkins, CJ.

We deal once again with consequences of the multiple convictions of Cheryl Amirault LeFave of rape of a child under sixteen years and indecent assault and battery on a child under fourteen years.1 In Commonwealth v. LeFave, 407 Mass. 927 (1990), we affirmed those convictions, and in Commonwealth v. Amirault, 415 Mass. 112 (1993), we vacated the trial judge’s order revising the sentences that he had imposed.

In 1995, a judge, not the trial judge (who had retired), allowed the defendant’s first motion for a new trial. See Mass. R. Crim. P. 30, 378 Mass. 900 (1979). That motion…