Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Talbot
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided July 7, 2005PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtSpina, J.
The defendant was convicted, under a joint venture theory, of the forcible rape and the indecent assault and battery of her minor daughters by her boy friend. On appeal she asserts error in the exclusion of expert testimony concerning (1) the effects of her diabetes on her ability to recognize the sexual abuse of her daughters and, therefore, her ability to share the requisite mental state needed to establish a joint venture; and (2) the family burdens her diabetic condition placed on her older daughter, who, the defendant argues, was motivated thereby to include her falsely in the…
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