Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Gouveia
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided December 21, 1976PublishedCited by 67 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBraucher, J.
The defendant appeals from convictions of rape and an unnatural act, and argues two assignments of error: (1) exclusion of evidence of prior sexual intercourse by the victim, and (2) denial of his motion for a mistrial after the prosecutor in his closing argument asserted that there was no evidence to refute the victim’s testimony as to what happened when she and the defendant were alone together. We hold that there was no error in excluding evidence of prior sexual acts between the victim and a person other than the defendant. We also hold that in all the circumstances of this case, the…
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3Cited by67 opinions
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