Massachusetts Supreme Court Throws Out Father’s Rape Conviction

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BOSTON: Massachusetts’s highest court has tossed the conviction of a man found guilty in 2014 of raping his daughter more than 30 years ago.

The state Supreme Judicial Court ruled that Robert White’s child rape conviction couldn’t stand due to an issue related to the statute of limitations.  State law allows defendants to be convicted of child rape, if there’s corroborating evidence, for incidents that happened more than 27 years prior to indictment.

The court said White’s daughter testified at trial to some “incidents of rape” that occurred before Oct. 3, 1981 and some after that date.  It found that prosecutors failed in providing corroborating evidence for incidents before then, and the jury may have convicted him based on those incidents.

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