Commonwealth v. Moran

Following a trial without a jury in the District Court, the defendant, Daniel Moran, was convicted of accosting or annoying a person of the opposite sex in violation of G. L. c. 272, § 53. He appeals, claiming that the evidence was insufficient to support his conviction. We disagree and affirm.

The facts are not in dispute. On July 17, 2009, a young woman whom we shall call Ms. Jones1 was employed as a nanny by a Brookline family. That morning, she was walking down Beacon Street in Brookline, pushing a sixteen month old child in a stroller on her way to a coffee shop and then to a nearby park. *9…