COMMONWEALTH v. THAYER


418 Mass. 130 (1994)

634 N.E.2d 576

COMMONWEALTH vs. CLARENCE THAYER (and nine companion cases).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

June 14, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carlo A. Obligato, Committee for Public Counsel Service, for Clarence Thayer.

Lawrence R. Glynn for Isabell Thayer.

Daniel A. Less, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

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


NOLAN, J.

The defendants, Clarence and Isabell Thayer, husband and wife, were tried jointly on indictments charging them with forcible rape of their two children,2 both under the age of sixteen in violation of G.L.c. 265, § 22A (1992 ed.), and with indecent assault and battery on a child under the age of fourteen in violation of G.L.c. 265, § 13B (1992 ed.). After trial, the defendants were found guilty of statutory rape (G.L...

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