State v. Lyons

OPINION

WEISBERGER, Chief Justice.

This case comes before us on the appeal of the defendant, Kevin M. Lyons, from a judgment of conviction entered in the Superior Court on two counts of first-degree child molestation in violation of G.L.1956 § 11-37-8.1. The trial justice sentenced the defendant to concurrent terms of fifty years’ imprisonment on each count, twenty-five to serve and the remainder suspended. We affirm the judgment of conviction. The facts insofar as pertinent to this appeal are as follows.

Around the age of seven or eight, the victim, Julie 1 , together with her mother, her…