COMMONWEALTH v. SOUZA

No. 93-P-1494.

39 Mass. App. Ct. 103 (1995)

COMMONWEALTH vs. RAYMOND SOUZA (and thirteen companion cases).

Appeals Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

August 17, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel R. Williams, of New York, for Shirley Souza.

William M. Kunstler, of New York, for Raymond Souza.

Catherine E. Sullivan, Assistant District Attorney (Sheila M. Calkins, Assistant District Attorney, with her) for the Commonwealth.

Present: BROWN, KASS, & PORADA, JJ.


KASS, J.

Three grandchildren of the defendants, Shirley and Raymond Souza, complained that their grandparents had sexually molested them. Those complaints, the grandparents said in their defense, were false — the product of family hysteria and parental suggestion. In aid of that theory, defense counsel sought to cross-examine the mothers of the complaining grandchildren about the mothers' recovery of previously repressed memories of sexual abuse that they themselves...

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