COMMONWEALTH v. WIDRICK


392 Mass. 884 (1984)

467 N.E.2d 1353

COMMONWEALTH vs. NATHAN P. WIDRICK.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

August 23, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William P. Homans, Jr. (Anne E. Braudy with him) for the defendant.

Margot Botsford, Assistant District Attorney (Karen J. Kepler, Assistant District Attorney, with her) for the Commonwealth.

Holly D. Ladd, Althea Lloyd & Rita Pollak, for The Family Crisis Program for Sexually Abused Children of Tufts New England Medical Center & others, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., LIACOS, ABRAMS, NOLAN, & O'CONNOR, JJ.


HENNESSEY, C.J.

On June 1, 1983, a grand jury indicted the defendant, Nathan P. Widrick, on eight counts of indecent assault and battery of a child under the age of fourteen years and on seven counts of rape of a child under the age of sixteen years. The defendant filed a motion which requested the trial judge to order psychiatric examinations of the seven year old complaining witness (R) and her six year old sister (B)...

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