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No Felony Without ‘Serious’ Mental Injury

Although a 17-year-old girl who was forcibly molested by the two defendants was understandably “agitated” and “upset,” even two years later when she testified at their trial, the commonwealth failed to establish the girl suffered a particularly “grave” mental injury, and the Court of Appeals reverses the two defendants’ convictions for the felony of aggravated ...

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