Commonwealth v. Calcagno

How courts have described this case

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

• approving admission of prior sexual assaults that occurred between one and seven years before act forming basis of indictment
• evidence admitted that defendant had molested victim at least three times a month for eight years
• permissible for prosecutor to argue, based on evidence, that child victim of indecent assault and battery had no motive to lie
• evidence of prior sexual abuse of victim relevant to \put the single instance of abuse charged into a comprehensible context\
• missing witness had no significant evidence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).