Deming v. Commonwealth

Charles M. Deming (defendant), who is charged in two indictments with forcible rape of a child in violation of G. L. c. 265, § 22A, appeals, pursuant to S.J.C. Rule 2:21, as amended, 434 Mass. 1301 (2001), from the denial of his petition under G. L. c. 211, § 3, by a single justice of this court. The defendant’s petition sought relief from an interlocutory order of a judge in the Superior Court. The order denied the defendant’s motion seeking that the prosecutor be directed to inquire of the mother of the alleged victims or, in the alternative, that the defendant’s trial counsel be permitted…