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COMMONWEALTH v. ARANA

SJC-10219

453 Mass. 214 (2009)

COMMONWEALTH v. JOSE M. ARANA.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Plymouth.

February 13, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert F. Shaw, Jr., for the defendant.

Mary E. Lee, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Anthony D. Mirenda, Ara B. Gershengorn, Jennifer A. Cardello & Lydia Watts, for Victim Rights Law Center & others, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

Julieann Hernon, Committee for Public Counsel Services, for Committee for Public Counsel Services, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: MARSHALL, C.J., IRELAND, SPINA, COWIN, CORDY, & BOTSFORD, JJ.

BOTSFORD, J.

A jury in the Superior Court convicted the defendant on seven indictments: one charging rape of a child with force, G. L. c. 265, § 22A; one charging assault with attempt to commit rape, G. L. c. 265, § 24; two charging the lesser offense of indecent assault and battery on a person who has attained the age of fourteen years, G. L. c. 265, § 13H; and three charging delivering of liquor to a person under twenty-one years of age, G. L. c....

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