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Commonwealth v. Walker

Citations

  • 426 Mass. 301
  • 687 N.E.2d 1246
  • 1997 Mass. LEXIS 412

How courts have described this case

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  • \indecent assault and battery of a child under age fourteen is a lesser included offense of rape of a child under age sixteen\
  • no dispute as to age of victims in convicting defendant of lesser included offense of indecent assault and battery on child under fourteen years of age
  • indecent assault and battery of child under fourteen is lesser included offense of forcible rape of child under sixteen
  • elements of rape and indecent assault and battery are same \except for the aggravating factor of penetration in the rape charge that distinguishes the greater offense from the lesser offense\

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Judges: Marshall

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