Commonwealth v. St. Louis

How courts have described this case

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

• upholding statute criminalizing indecent assault and battery on person with intellectual disability, even though \intellectual disability\ was not defined in statute
• victim was missing half of her cerebellum, lived with her mother, and had verbal intelligence quotient [IQ] of forty-seven
• although victim did not testify she was offended, sufficient evidence of offense where victim said no and expressed \her desire to detach herself from the situation\
• \A criminal statute must define the offense in terms that are sufficiently clear to permit a person of average intelligence to comprehend what conduct is prohibited\ [quotation and citation omitted]
• counsel was not ineffective where proposed motions and arguments would not have succeeded
• defendant told victim to keep incidents secret

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).