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COMMONWEALTH v. MASSEY

402 Mass. 453 (1988)

523 N.E.2d 781

COMMONWEALTH vs. ROBERT L. MASSEY.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Plymouth.

June 6, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brownlow M. Speer, Committee for Public Counsel Services, for the defendant.

Mary Ellen O'Sullivan, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., WILKINS, LIACOS, ABRAMS, NOLAN, LYNCH, & O'CONNOR, JJ.

HENNESSEY, C.J.

The defendant appeals from his conviction for rape of a child.1 He contends that he was unfairly prejudiced by the trial judge's refusal to allow defense counsel to cross-examine the child-victim at voir dire, after having allowed the prosecutor direct examination, and by the judge's allowance of cross-examination of the defendant and of his character witness on the issue of the...

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