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Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 8/30/2004

Commonwealth v. Torres

Citations

  • 442 Mass. 554
  • 813 N.E.2d 1261
  • 2004 Mass. LEXIS 512

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  • premising liability on principal and “joint venture” theories, the latter of which is very much like our complicity liability, not on a statute giving rise to liability for failing to stop another person from inflicting abuse
  • rejecting defendant’s contention that trial judge erred in failing to give instruction regarding parental privilege defense; “[o]n any view of the evidence, [the] frequent beating of . . . very young children . . . would not come within that privilege”
  • upholding defendant’s conviction of murder of infant even though mother had equal opportunity to commit murder, where evidence showed only defendant had behaved with hostility toward infant and defendant’s claim of how mother assaulted infant was inconsistent with medical evidence
  • evidence sufficient where it demonstrated hostility and where account of mother’s injuring infant did not comport with medical evidence
  • fact that children referred to the defendant as \Daddy\ signified their \understanding that the defendant had a parental role in the household\
  • fact that children referred to the defendant as “Daddy” signified their “understanding that the defendant had a parental role in the household”

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Judges: Sosman

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