COMMONWEALTH v. VIGIANI

SJC-13087.

488 Mass. 34 (2021)

COMMONWEALTH v. ELI VIGIANI.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

July 20, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ian MacLean , Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Michelle Menken for the defendant.

Robert F. Hennessy & Merritt Schnipper , for youth advocacy division of the Committee for Public Counsel Services & another, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: Budd, C.J., Gaziano, Lowy, Cypher, Kafker, Wendlandt, & Georges, JJ.


General Laws c. 233, § 20 (§ 20), limits who may give what sort of testimony in various civil and criminal proceedings. One set of limitations is found in § 20, Fourth, which applies to the testimony of a parent or minor child1 against the other in criminal, delinquency, and youthful offender...

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