indecent assault

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The case in Dedham, Massachusetts, before Judge Paul McCallum was the first to be filed, with prosecutors in July 2021 charging McCarrick with three counts of indecent assault and battery.

From Reuters • Aug. 30, 2023

On Wednesday, the four indecent assault charges, which were all alternative counts, were struck off by the judge, due to a "legal technicality" and not as a result of the prosecution abandoning any allegation.

From BBC • Jul. 20, 2023

However, the judge on Wednesday threw out some indecent assault charges that had been included, citing a legal technicality.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 20, 2023

She was acquitted of charges of rape and indecent assault.

From New York Times • Apr. 3, 2023

In the case of common assaults as opposed to indecent assault, the prosecution seems to have been allowable only when the object of a wanton attack was a free person.

From Anabasis by Dakyns, Henry Graham