COMMONWEALTH v. DONOVAN

No. 01-P-1760.

58 Mass. App. Ct. 631 (2003)

COMMONWEALTH v. MICHAEL S. DONOVAN.

Court of Appeals of Massachusetts, Worcester.

July 30, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eric S. Brandt, Committee for Public Counsel Services, for the defendant.

Ellyn H. Lazar-Moore, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Present: JACOBS, KAPLAN, & KAFKER, JJ.


KAFKER, J.

The defendant, Michael S. Donovan, was convicted of multiple counts of aggravated rape, indecent assault and battery, kidnapping, and threatening to commit a crime. He contends that aspects of the prosecutor's closing, which focused on the significant variance between his post-Miranda statements to the police and the defense theory at trial, constitute reversible error. The defendant, who did not testify at trial, particularly objects to the prosecutor...

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