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Commonwealth v. Gonsalves

Citations

  • 499 N.E.2d 1229
  • 23 Mass. App. Ct. 184
  • 1986 Mass. App. LEXIS 1878

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  • \The victim's account of what the defendant did to him in the apartment was sufficient to overcome the defendant's motion for a required finding of not guilty of rape\
  • \The victim's account of [rape] was sufficient to overcome the defendant's motion for a required finding of not guilty of rape\
  • “[i]t is not at all implausible that feelings of humiliation, embarrassment, and violation of privacy might be particularly forceful in a teenage victim of a male homosexual rape and might account for a delay of several weeks in revealing all the details of the rape”

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Judges: Kass, Kaplan, Fine

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