Commonwealth v. Pare

The defendant was convicted by a jury in the Superior Court of three charges of indecent assault and battery on John (a pseudonym), a child under fourteen years of age, G. L. c. 265, § 13B. The Appeals Court reversed the defendant’s convictions and set aside the jury’s verdicts because the defendant’s trial counsel had been improperly denied access to arguably privileged counseling and treatment records of John, *428and, in particular, certain records of John’s evaluation by a “sexual information and trauma team” (team) at the Center for Family Development (center). Commonwealth v. Pare, 43 Mass.…