Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 3/6/1989

Commonwealth v. Amirault

Citations

535 N.E.2d 193
404 Mass. 221
1989 Mass. LEXIS 65

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upholding admission of fresh complaint, made by four year old child, eighteen months after the child last attended abusive day care center
declining to address Owens but concluding that child victim's lack of memory presented no Confrontation Clause problem
no confrontation clause violation where child sexual assault complainant exhibited “lapse of memory” on cross-examination
“Ideally, all persons present in the room during the taping would be visible in the videotape”
“the judge submitted to the jury the question whether the complaint was ‘fresh’ ”
“judge correctly relied on curative instructions as an adequate means to correct any error and to remedy any prejudice to the defendant”

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Judges: Hennessey, Abrams, Nolan, Lynch

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