Commonwealth v. Heath

These defendants, Heath and Leger, appeal from convictions in August, 1985, of aggravated rape of a *438young woman (the victim), then sixteen years old. The defendants assert errors at their trial principally in the exclusion of evidence and in the judge’s instructions to the jury. The evidence permitted the jury to make the following findings.

The victim (who lived in Gardner) and two other young women had taken an examination at a community college during the early evening of November 7, 1984. After the examination, the victim made a telephone call to her mother and told her, untruthfully, that…