Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Mazzarino
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided March 1, 2012No. 10-P-755PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtHanlon, J.
The defendant appeals from a Superior Court judgment and order of commitment finding that he is a sexually dangerous person (SDP). See G. L. c. 123A, § 14(d). We affirm.
Background. On August 7, 1987, the defendant, who was twenty-five years old at the time, vaginally and anally raped a seventy-two year old woman after manipulating his way into the Revere apartment where she was staying with her son.2 In November, 1990, a jury convicted him of three counts of rape; he was sentenced to nineteen and one-half to twenty years at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Cedar Junction and an…
2Cases cited21 opinions
- Commonwealth v. BrunoMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2000
- Commonwealth v. ZinserMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2006
- AndrewsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1975
- Commonwealth v. PeloquinMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2002
- Commonwealth v. LambMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1974
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3Cited by9 opinions
- Commonwealth v. GeorgeMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2017
- State v. Donald DD.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2013
- In re R.B.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2018
- Commonwealth v. CuevasMassachusetts Appeals Court · 2015
- Commonwealth v. FloodMassachusetts Superior Court · 2015
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