COMMONWEALTH v. LANNING

No. 90-P-292.

32 Mass. App. Ct. 279 (1992)

589 N.E.2d 318

COMMONWEALTH vs. JOHN J. LANNING.

Appeals Court of Massachusetts, Bristol.

March 24, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert J. Catalano for the defendant.

Elspeth B. Cypher, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Present: PERRETTA, DREBEN, & IRELAND, JJ.


PERRETTA, J.

At his jury trial on indictments charging him with two counts of indecent assault and battery on a child under the age of fourteen years and two counts of rape of a child by use of force, there was evidence of uncharged bad acts by the defendant and of fresh complaint by the two victims, sisters. The defendant claims on appeal, as to the bad acts, that this evidence was inadmissible, overwhelmingly prejudicial, and insufficiently instructed upon by the...

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