COMMONWEALTH v. JEWETT


392 Mass. 558 (1984)

467 N.E.2d 155

COMMONWEALTH vs. BRUCE JEWETT.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

July 23, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ellen L. Bane, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Margaret H. Van Deusen for the defendant.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., WILKINS, LIACOS, LYNCH, & O'CONNOR, JJ.


LYNCH, J.

The defendant was convicted of rape and was sentenced to a term of thirty-five to fifty years at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Walpole. He filed a timely appeal from this conviction. The defendant also filed a motion for a new trial, which the trial judge denied. A notice of appeal from this denial was filed, and this was consolidated with the appeal from the defendant's conviction.

After a decision by the Appeals Court reversing the...

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