State v. Martinez

OPINION

FLAHERTY, Justice.

The defendant, Juan Martinez (Martinez), was indicted by a grand jury for the crime of first-degree sexual assault against a fourteen-year old child. He later was convicted by a jury for that crime and was sentenced to a forty-year term of imprisonment, fifteen years of which were suspended with probation. He timely appealed from his judgment of conviction.

Facts/Procedural History

In early August 1998, the victim, Jane Doe, 1 (Jane), was staying with her eighteen-year old half-sister, Heather, in Johnston, Rhode Island. Heather lived in Johnston with her father and her…