State v. Poulin

OPINION

MURRAY, Justice.

The defendant, David R. Poulin (Poulin), appeals from his convictions on one count of committing an abominable and detestable crime against nature and on two counts of indecent assault on the complainant, a nine-year-old girl. He claims that the trial justice admitted the testimony of three witnesses that contained inadmissible hearsay evidence. In addition to his hearsay contentions, Poulin asserts that the testimony of the complainant’s mother, Sandra, included highly prejudicial allusions to assaults on the complainant other than those charged in the state’s…