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Appeals court reverses sex-crime conviction in Fall River case

By Jonathan Saltzman and Charles Radin
Globe Staff / December 20, 2005

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A state appeals court overturned yesterday the conviction of a Fall River man who had been jailed on charges of molesting two adolescent female relatives, citing an ''egregiously improper" closing argument last year by a Bristol County prosecutor who invoked the clergy sex-abuse scandal. (Full article: 655 words)

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