Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Davis
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided May 17, 2002No. 00-P-700PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtDoerfer, J.
The defendant was convicted by a jury of digital rape and indecent assault and battery. The issues at trial were consent and penetration. On appeal the defendant claims, in substance, that certain extrajudicial statements qualified only as fresh complaints and not as excited utterances, and thus should have been limited in number and effect. He also claims, that he was deprived of a fair trial because there was a combined “piling on” of extrajudicial statements that were admitted as either excited utterances or fresh complaints. We affirm.
The evidence at trial. The defendant and Alice1 had…
2Cases cited22 opinions
- Commonwealth v. FlebotteMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1994
- Commonwealth v. PeruzziMassachusetts Appeals Court · 1983
- Commonwealth v. LicataMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1992
- Commonwealth v. BaileyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1976
- Commonwealth v. WheltonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1998
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3Cited by6 opinions
- Commonwealth v. CarusoMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2017
- Commonwealth v. McGeeMassachusetts Appeals Court · 2009
- Commonwealth v. FigueroaMassachusetts Appeals Court · 2011
- Commonwealth v. WilliamsMassachusetts Appeals Court · 2002
- Commonwealth v. JeffersonMassachusetts Appeals Court · 2018
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