Commonwealth v. Pillai

Marshall, CJ.

In 2001, a District Court jury convicted the defendant on two complaints charging eight counts of indecent assault and battery on a child under fourteen years. One complaint charged six counts occurring against one child, and a separate complaint charged two counts allegedly occurring months earlier against a different child. On a consolidated appeal from the convictions and the denial of his motion for a new trial, the defendant contended that the trial judge erred by joining the two complaints for trial and by precluding him from introducing certain evidence. He also brought…