Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Amirault
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided March 6, 1989PublishedCited by 103 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtHennessey, C.J.
The defendant was indicted for seven counts of indecent assault and battery on a child under the age of fourteen, and for eight counts of rape of a child under the age of sixteen. The fifteen indictments involve nine child vie tims, both female and male, aged four to eight years. A jury found the defendant guilty on all fifteen counts.
The defendant was sentenced to serve concurrent terms of from thirty to forty years at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Cedar Junction, on each of the eight indictments charging rape, and to concurrent terms of from eight to ten years on each of the…
2Cases cited54 opinions
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- Commonwealth v. TavaresMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1982
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- Commonwealth v. HaasMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1977
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3Cited by103 opinions
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