COMMONWEALTH v. MORRIS


20 Mass. App. Ct. 114 (1985)

478 N.E.2d 750

COMMONWEALTH vs. WALTER P. MORRIS.

Appeals Court of Massachusetts, Plymouth.

May 28, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard Zorza, Committee for Public Counsel Services, for the defendant.

Mary Ellen O'Sullivan, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Present: ARMSTRONG, BROWN, & PERRETTA, JJ.


PERRETTA, J.

On an indictment charging statutory rape, the defendant was found guilty of the lesser included offense of assault with intent to rape.1 He argues that his conviction must be reversed because the judge precluded inquiry of a witness on the issue of her bias against him, see Commonwealth v. Ahearn, 370 Mass. 283, 287 (1976), and because the prosecutor was allowed to question...

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