Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court April 10, 1998 (Commonwealth v. DiMonte)

Marshall, J.

On July 21, 1995, a jury in the Boston Municipal Court returned a guilty verdict of assault and battery, G. L. c. 265, § 13A, against the defendant, Ivan A. DiMonte *234(husband).1 The complainant, DiMonte’s wife2 (wife), did not testify at trial. The defendant appeals from his conviction based on claimed errors in the admission in evidence of several extrajudicial statements by.