Commonwealth v. De La Cruz

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that force and violence are not necessary elements of criminal assault and battery
• interpreting G. L. c. 265, § 13H, prohibiting indecent assault and battery on “person who has attained age fourteen”
• fondling of breasts and touching of buttocks and pubic area constituted indecent assault and battery
• “It has been held that the intentional, unjustified touching of private areas such as ‘the breasts . . .’ constitutes an indecent assault and battery”
• no possible risk of a miscarriage of justice because indictments alleged distribution rather than dispensing
• which predated all 1986 incidents in this case

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).