State v. White

GODFREY, Justice.

After a jury trial in Superior Court, Pe-nobscot County, the defendant was convicted of gross sexual misconduct in violation of 17-A M.R.S.A. § 253(1)(B) (1983) 1 and unlawful sexual contact in violation of 17-A M.R.S.A. § 255(1)(C) (1983). 2 Before sentencing, he filed a motion for a new trial, which the Superior Court denied. We affirm the judgment.

I. Scope of Cross-Examination

The defendant was a man thirty-five years old who dated the mother of the prosecutrix briefly in February, 1980. During that period, he visited several times at the mother’s apartment, where the…