State v. Hunter

The defendant, Cecil Hunter, was convicted after a jury trial in Superior Court (Contas, J.) of aggravated felonious sexual assault, RSA 632-A:2, I. On appeal, the defendant argues that: (1) the State failed to provide sufficient evidence to prove the victim’s lack of consent, and (2) the trial court erred in failing to grant a mistrial based upon references to uncharged criminal conduct made during the prosecutor’s opening statement and during the testimony of a witness. We affirm.

The female victim first met the defendant on July 30, 1987, at the Collind residence in South Berwick, Maine,…