Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Cogswell
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided December 20, 1991No. 91-P-126PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtGreenberg, J.
The six indictments 1 on which the defendant was convicted after a jury trial arose out of alleged sexual assaults on his two stepdaughters, whom we shall call Yvette and Zoe. After considering the several issues raised by the defendant on appeal, we conclude that the convictions on the indictments encompassing both girls’ accusations must be reversed.
We recite the highlights of the evidence produced by the Commonwealth, described in the order in which they occurred. Both girls first met the defendant in 1977 while he worked in Brockton as the operator of an ice cream truck business. The…
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