Commonwealth v. McCants

In 1974, two Superior Court juries convicted the defendant of sexual assaults on three different victims. In the first case (the May convictions), the defendant was convicted of two counts of felony unnatural acts and two counts of armed robbery.2 The defendant did not appeal. In the second case (the November convictions), he was convicted of rape and armed robbery. These judgments were affirmed on appeal. Commonwealth v. McCants, 3 Mass. App. Ct. 596 (1975). Approximately forty years later, the defendant filed motions for a new trial claiming, in relevant part, that (1) his May convictions…