Commonwealth v. Domaingue

How courts have described this case

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• holding that there was sufficient evidence to send an incest case to a jury where the victim testified generally about “having sex” with her father but also testified that “he put his penis into my vagina”
• determining defendant was not deprived of his constitutional right to a fair trial by exclusion of evidence under rape shield law
• at common law, evidence of prior sexual conduct of victim with persons other than defendant inadmissible to impeach victim’s credibility
• judge did not err in excluding evidence of complainant’s prior sexual conduct where “proffered evidence was excludable under common law principles of evidence, even though not properly excluded under G. L. c. 233, § 21B”
• motion for required finding of not guilty properly denied where complainant’s testimony regarding the incidents varied somewhat from the dates alleged in the indictments and where the dates and times of the alleged offenses were not elements of the crimes

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).