Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Montanez
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided May 22, 2003PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtCowin, J.
After a jury-waived trial in the Superior Court, the defendant was found guilty on ten indictments charging sexual assault.1 The charges arose after the victim reported that she had been sexually assaulted by her mother’s live-in boy friend from *443the time the victim was nine and one-half years old until she was fifteen years old. During this period the defendant was living with the victim, her siblings, and her mother at their various residences in Lowell.* 2
The defendant appealed from his convictions to the Appeals Court, and we transferred the case to this court on our own motion.…
2Cases cited20 opinions
- Commonwealth v. SaferianMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1974
- Commonwealth v. GrandisonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2001
- Commonwealth v. FitzgeraldMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1978
- State v. TroupeSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1996
- Commonwealth v. LicataMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1992
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3Cited by22 opinions
- Commonwealth v. KingMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2005
- Commonwealth v. StuckichMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2008
- Commonwealth v. PurdyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2011
- Commonwealth v. AranaMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2009
- Commonwealth v. AvilesMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2011
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