State v. Carvalho

OPINION

BEVILACQUA, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment denying the defendant’s application for postcon-viction relief in which the defendant claims that the trial justice made certain erroneous evidentiary rulings.

The defendant, James J. Carvalho, was charged with a rape that occurred in Providence in the early-morning hours of October 22, 1976. The victim testified that she had returned to her home at that time after having spent the evening at the Safari Lounge, a neighborhood drinking establishment. As she stood on the sidewalk in front of her house and searched for her house…