Commonwealth v. White

The defendant, on trial for rape and abuse of two minor female children and other charges of unlawful sexual activity involving them, called as one of his witnesses a person who offered but was not allowed to testify that the mother of one of the two children had stated to her, about the defendant, that “even if he didn’t do it that after what he did to me I still hope all sorts of nasty things happen to him.” The exclusion was error. The statement was relevant to the bias of the mother, who had been a prosecution witness, against the defendant, and, although the statement was hearsay (being…