Court Opinion

ID: 9528835
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 03:44:35.982049+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:27:23.284010
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Hennessey, C.J.
(concurring in the result). I concur with the comments of Justice Braucher in his separate opinion. I add that as I read the opinion of the court, it is narrowly and carefully confined to cases where the disputed evidence is clearly relevant to a showing of bias or motive to lie by the complaining witness. If the court’s opinion is not read in this cautious fashion, there is a danger that there will be unwarranted inroads upon the rape-shield law, G. L. c. 233, § 21B, and the legislative purposes which inspired that statute.