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· 4/21/1987

Commonwealth v. Comtois

Citations

  • 506 N.E.2d 503
  • 399 Mass. 668
  • 1987 Mass. LEXIS 1266

How courts have described this case

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  • where defendant had warned daughter that she would get in trouble if she told anyone, victim made initial disclosure two months later
  • where defendant warned daughter that she would get in trouble if she told anyone, victim made initial disclosure two months later
  • assailant threatened child sexual assault victim that she would “get in trouble” if she reported incidents
  • child sexual assault victims reported incidents two months and one week after leaving defendant’s house
  • assailant was related to, and lived in same household with, child sexual assault victims
  • any error in failing to charge on unanimity as to any incident did not create substantial risk of miscarriage of justice

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Hennessey, Wilkins, Liacos, Abrams, Nolan

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