· 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
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- 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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