Commonwealth v. Gichel

From his convictions for rape of a child (six indictments); assault and battery (six indictments); and posing a child in a state of nudity and/or posing a child engaged in a sexual act (sixteen indictments), the defendant appeals. He asserts that the trial judge erred in admitting gap-filling fresh complaint testimony; in allowing the jury to consider fresh complaint testimony on the posing charges; in denying his motion for a required finding on two of the rape indictments; and in allowing the jurors to decide for themselves what incident was the basis of a rape indictment for which no bill…