COMMONWEALTH v. NURSE

No. 99-P-461.

50 Mass. App. Ct. 36 (2000)

COMMONWEALTH v. KEITH NURSE.

Court of Appeals of Massachusetts, Plymouth.

August 24, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brownlow M. Speer, Committee for Public Counsel Services, for the defendant.

John E. Bradley, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Present: KASS, GILLERMAN, & JACOBS, JJ.


KASS, J.

While in the custody of police on a charge of prostitution, Tracy Jones1 complained of a rape that had occurred close to three months (more precisely, eighty-three days) earlier. The police detective to whom she confided the details of that sexual assault was permitted, over objection, to testify in full detail before a jury in Superior Court about what Jones had told him. The defendant was convicted of rape. We conclude that...

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