Commonwealth v. Lorenzetti

A jury found the defendant guilty of two counts each of rape and indecent assault and battery of a person over fourteen years of age. On appeal, he claims error primarily in the excessive “piling on” of fresh complaint testimony and improper closing argument by the prosecutor.

The Commonwealth offered this evidence. The complainant, *38Janice Doe (a pseudonym), testified that on May 19, 1996, when she was seventeen years old, she spent the night at the home of a family friend, Karen Thomashay. The defendant’s wife, Cheryl Lorenzetti, and the Lorenzettis’ children lived at the house with…