State v. MacNeil
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The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the superior court convicting Defendant of one count of second-degree sexual assault for having sexually assaulted a fifteen-year-old neighbor, holding that the trial justice did not commit reversible error.
Specifically, the Court held (1) the trial justice did not commit reversible error by sustaining the prosecutor’s objection to defense counsel’s question to the complainant as to whether he had received any professional counseling with respect to the events at issue in this case; (2) Defendant waived his argument that the trial court erred in not striking Defendant’s wife’s response to the prosecutor’s questions about contacting the complainant or his family; and (3) the trial justice did not err in overruling the defense objection to Defendant’s wife’s testimony that she and Defendant lived on the side of an elementary school.
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