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· 12/23/1985

Commonwealth v. Key

Citations

  • 486 N.E.2d 1139
  • 21 Mass. App. Ct. 293
  • 1985 Mass. App. LEXIS 2034

How courts have described this case

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

  • one incident could not serve as a factor to identify the perpetrator of another where the only similarity between incidents was the location and sexual nature of the offense
  • one incident could not serve as a factor to identify the perpetrator of another where the only similarity between incidents was the location and sexual nature of the offense
  • reversal of a rape conviction required where the jury were informed that the defendant had been arrested for an alleged crime in the same place within days of the incident at issue

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Grant, Kaplan, Smith

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