COMMONWEALTH v. JONES


404 Mass. 339 (1989)

535 N.E.2d 221

COMMONWEALTH vs. JAMES JONES.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Hampden.

March 14, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tina S. Page for the defendant.

Matthew J. Ryan, Jr., District Attorney, & William T. Walsh, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Lila Heideman, Assistant Attorney General, Christina L. Harms & M. Francisco Palomo, for the Department of Social Services, amicus curiae.

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


HENNESSEY, C.J.

This case is here on report of a question by a Superior Court judge pursuant to Mass. R. Crim. P. 34 and Mass. R.A.P. 4. In March, 1986, a Hampden County grand jury indicted the defendant, James Jones, on three counts of indecent assault and battery of a child under fourteen years of age, two counts of rape of a child by force, and one count of threat to do bodily harm. The defendant allegedly sexually abused...

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