514 W. 44th St., Inc. v. Whalen

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• overwhelming quantity of uncharged bad acts evidence should not have been admitted, even with limiting instruction
• discussing protocol for pretrial inspection of third-party records under Mass. R. Crim. P. 17
• treating new evidentiary rule as constitutionally informed rather than constitutionally mandated, and applying it prospectively
• establishing the present procedure for confronting the perennial problem of reconciling the defendant’s need for discovery and the statutorily protected privilege covering communications made to rape crisis counselors of intensely private matters
• commenting on Lampron’s requirements, and emphasizing that defendant must satisfy each
• \evidence of prior bad acts 'is not admissible to show a defendant's bad character or propensity to commit the charged crime\ [emphasis supplied]

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