Massachusetts Appeals Court July 10, 2001, No. 99-P-556 (Commonwealth v. Jacobs)

Kaplan, J.

Steven Jacobs was tried jury waived in District Court and convicted on two complaints charging him with indecent assault and battery upon two adult women, Melissa *39Gray in one complaint and Susan Hudson in the other.1 There was error in ordering these alleged offenses to be tried jointly; they were unrelated in the sense of the rule regulating joinder, Mass.R.Crim.P. 9, 378 Mass.