COMMONWEALTH v. BROWN


413 Mass. 693 (1992)

602 N.E.2d 575

COMMONWEALTH vs. ABDULE BROWN.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

November 12, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carlo A. Obligato, Committee for Public Counsel Services, for the defendant.

Thomas J. Mundy, Assistant District Attorney (Vincent R. McDonough, Assistant District Attorney, with him) for the Commonwealth.

Present: LIACOS, C.J., NOLAN, LYNCH, & GREANEY, JJ.


GREANEY, J.

We granted the defendant's application for further appellate review in this case primarily to consider whether the trial judge properly admitted in evidence under the spontaneous exclamation exception to the hearsay rule answers given by the three and one-half year old victim in response to two questions asked by a physician at Boston City Hospital. The Appeals Court, in an unpublished memorandum and order entered pursuant to its rule 1:28, held that ...

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