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COMMONWEALTH v. GUSTAVO GONZALEZ SANTOS.

Citations

  • 100 Mass. App. Ct. 1

How courts have described this case

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

  • \The sworn testimony of the victim of a sexual assault . . . is evidence of the facts asserted\
  • no corroboration or supporting evidence required where victim's testimony alone established all elements of crime
  • \A defendant who forces or induces a child to touch the defendant's body in an indecent manner satisfies the intentional touching element\
  • victim's testimony alone, if believed by jury, sufficient to support conviction of rape of child and indecent assault and battery on child under age of fourteen
  • sufficient evidence where defendant grabbed victim's hand and placed it on his penis
  • conviction may be supported by \victim's testimony alone\

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