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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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