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· 1/8/1988

Commonwealth v. Achorn

Citations

  • 517 N.E.2d 486
  • 25 Mass. App. Ct. 247
  • 1988 Mass. App. LEXIS 6

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • assault with intent to rape said in dictum to be a lesser included offense of rape
  • five-month delay reasonable in light of the circumstances, which included her age [four and one-half at the time of the incidents], the fact that the defendant was her father, and evidence that she feared the defendant and that he told her to keep the incidents a “secret”

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Judges: Greaney, Cutter, Warner

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