Commonwealth v. Gore

This appeal involves a twelve and one-half year delay between the filing of a complaint charging the defendant, Robert Gore, with two counts of indecent assault and battery on a child under fourteen years of age, and the trial.1 The complaint issued in the New Bedford Division of the District Court Department on October 25, 1995. It appears that the defendant was not aware of the charges at that time. On November 2, *7461995, a warrant issued for the defendant. On April 14, 1997, the defendant was charged in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, with a variety of offenses, including assault by means of a…