Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Mosby
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided December 12, 1980PublishedCited by 64 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBrown, J.
The defendant appeals from his convictions by a jury in the Superior Court of breaking and entering a building in the daytime with intent to commit rape and larceny (G. L. c. 266, § 17), and of two counts of rape (as newly defined in G. L. c. 265, § 22, as appearing in St. 1974, c. 474, § 1).
The defendant raises five claims of error. He argues (1) that the prosecutor’s reference, in closing argument, to an alleged silence on the part of the defendant at the time he was arrested and confronted with the complainant, was improper; (2) that the prosecutor’s additional comment, in closing…
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