Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Jacobs
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided July 10, 2001No. 99-P-556PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtKaplan, J.
Steven Jacobs was tried jury waived in District Court and convicted on two complaints charging him with indecent assault and battery upon two adult women, Melissa *39Gray in one complaint and Susan Hudson in the other.1 There was error in ordering these alleged offenses to be tried jointly; they were unrelated in the sense of the rule regulating joinder, Mass.R.Crim.P. 9, 378 Mass. 859 (1979). Accordingly, the convictions will be reversed for separate trials.2
The defendant had been a licensed chiropractor since 1988. Gray was his patient during November, 1996, and accused him of impermissible…
2Cases cited26 opinions
- Kotteakos v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1946
- United States v. LaneSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
- Commonwealth v. HelfantMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1986
- Commonwealth v. AlphasMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1999
- United States v. Louis WernerCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1980
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3Cited by9 opinions
- Commonwealth v. PillaiMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2005
- Commonwealth v. PerezMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2011
- State v. MasonSupreme Court of New Hampshire · 2003
- Commonwealth v. AguiarMassachusetts Appeals Court · 2010
- Commonwealth v. MedinaMassachusetts Appeals Court · 2005
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