Legal Opinion

COMMONWEALTH v. RUBIN HOLGUIN, JR.

Massachusetts Appeals Court

Decided June 30, 2022PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

HOLGUIN, COMMONWEALTH vs., 101 Mass. App. Ct. 337

COMMONWEALTH vs. RUBIN HOLGUIN, JR.

101 Mass. App. Ct. 337

March 1, 2022 - June 30, 2022

Court Below: Superior Court, Essex County

Present: Milkey, Sullivan, & Ditkoff, JJ.

No. 20-P-579.

Rape. Evidence, First complaint. Practice, Criminal, Argument by prosecutor.

At the trial of an indictment charging aggravated rape of a child, a Superior Court judge did not abuse his discretion in admitting evidence of the victim's written and oral communications to her mother about having just been sexually assaulted by the defendant (her father), where the text…

2Cases cited20 opinions

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  3. Commonwealth v. AranaMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2009
  4. Commonwealth v. FreemanMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1999
  5. Commonwealth v. AvilesMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2011

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