Commonwealth v. Rodriguez

On September 28,1976, the defendant Jose Rodriguez, then sixteen years of age, was complained of as being delinquent, in that on September 27 he had (in a single episode) committed the crimes of rape and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon. After a hearing in the Juvenile Session, Municipal Court of Brook-line, the judge ordered the juvenile complaints dismissed and adult complaints to be issued. The prosecution then took the usual course, and in the end, on July 20, 1977, the • defendant, on trial by jury in the Superior Court, Norfolk County, was convicted of the offenses above…