Commonwealth v. Kachoul

The defendant, Daniel Majok Kachoul, was found guilty of one count of digital rape and acquitted of seven other charges, three at one trial and four at a second trial, which is at issue here. On appeal, he challenges the trial judge’s admission in evidence of testimony and a videotape of a lineup in which the victim identified the defendant. He claims that the lineup identification evidence was both irrelevant, as he did not dispute *353at trial that he had been involved in a bizarre chance encounter with the victim, only that no rape had occurred, and prejudicial, as it portrayed him in a…