Maybe that is a good thing, waaaaaaaaaahh.....
"Ex-coach again convicted of raping player
In a second trial, the former coach of a girls’ soccer team has again been found guilty of raping one of his teenage players. Jose Arana was convicted Monday in Brockton Superior Court of raping the girl, then 15, in July 2004 while she was at his house for a sleepover with his daughter. He was acquitted of a charge of assault with intent to rape. Arana, 47, who also was coach at Notre Dame Academy in Hingham, was convicted in 2007, but the Supreme Judicial Court overturned the verdict after ruling that his trial included too many secondhand accounts from witnesses. Arana’s lawyer said there was no physical evidence that an assault occurred. Sentencing is set for today (AP)."
FLASHBACK: And Massachusetts sure holds to its reputation as the most perverted state in the nation:
"SJC orders new trial in 2004 child rape case" by John R. Ellement, Globe Staff | February 14, 2009
The state's highest court ordered a new trial yesterday for a former girls high school soccer coach convicted of sexually assaulting two sisters during a sleepover attended by his own children at the family home in Duxbury in 2004.
WTF is WRONG with these STATE SICKOS?!!!!!
The Supreme Judicial Court said Jose M. Arana Jr. did not get a fair trial because Plymouth prosecutors and the trial judge allowed too many witnesses to extensively describe conversations they had with the two alleged victims, even though the talks were not directly linked to the assaults.
WTF? They didn't even talk about the case and the testimony is being tossed?
The court said the conversations violated court rules governing "first complaint" testimony, the term used when a victim of a sexual crime first reports the alleged assault to someone, such as a friend, a relative, or police. The court has recently moved to limit such testimony and yesterday retroactively applied its current thinking to Arana, who was convicted in 2007.
Isn't that UNCONSTITUTIONAL?
Article I, Section 9: "No bill of attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed."
He was convicted of one count of rape of a child with force, one count of assault with attempt to commit rape, two counts of indecent assault and battery on a person 14 years or older, and three counts of giving alcohol to a person under 21. He was acquitted of six charges, including three counts of rape of a child with force....
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A former soccer coach for Notre Dame Academy in Hingham and coach of an area travel team, Arana was sentenced to 11 to 17 years in state prison. The court voided his sex crime convictions, but left intact the alcohol convictions....
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