Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Deschamps
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided December 29, 1972PublishedCited by 43 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtHale, C.J.
The defendant was convicted after a jury .trial held under G. L. c. 278, §§ 33A-33G, on two separate indictments, one charging him with rape and the other with unnatural and lascivious acts. The defendant relies on two assignments of error. He first assigns as error the trial court’s admission in evidence of a certain statement attributed to him containing language which might be construed as showing that he had previously been institutionalized for the commission of a crime.
The jury could have found from the evidence that the defendant enticed the victim to his apartment in the afternoon of…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Commonwealth v. BonomiMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1957
- George P. Bradley v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1969
- Commonwealth v. BurkeMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1959
- Commonwealth v. RedmondMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1970
- Commonwealth v. BlowMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1972
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3Cited by43 opinions
- Commonwealth v. GallantMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1977
- Commonwealth v. HaywoodMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1979
- Commonwealth v. CefaloMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1980
- Commonwealth v. BalthazarMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1974
- Commonwealth v. ChretienMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1981
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