Commonwealth v. Gallant

How courts have described this case

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• finding that a Massachusetts statutory rape statute is neutral as to the gender of the offender and victim
• providing that “unnatural sexual intercourse” includes, among other things, digital and mechanical penetration
• discussing “unnatural sexual intercourse” as applied to various provisions of G. L. c. 265
• interpreting “unnatural sexual intercourse” under G. L. c. 265, § 23, to include “fellatio, cunnilingus, and other intrusions of a part of a person’s body . . . into the genital or anal opening of another person’s body”
• construing G. L. c. 265, § 23, concerning “unnatural sexual intercourse”
• husband guilty of rape where he forced wife and third person to engage in sexual intercourse

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).