Commonwealth v. LaCaprucia

A grand jury indicted the defendant forty-three times for sexual crimes against his two children, a daughter and *441a son.1 A jury found him guilty on nineteen indictments. On appeal from the convictions, the Appeals Court reversed and remanded for a new trial. Commonwealth v. LaCaprucia, 41 Mass. App. Ct. 496 (1996). We denied the Commonwealth’s application for further appellate review. Commonwealth v. LaCaprucia, 424 Mass. 1102 (1996).

Prior to retrial, the defendant moved to dismiss the remaining nineteen indictments. He asserted that it could not be determined for which conduct he had been…