State v. Lemon

OPINION

KELLEHER, Justice.

The defendant, Ronald Lemon (Lemon), stands convicted by a Superior Court jury of having committed first-degree sexual assault (rape) upon a sixteen-year-old girl to whom we shall hereinafter refer as Louise. His appeal is directed to three evidentiary rulings made by the trial justice. We will give a brief résumé of the evidence before turning to the alleged errors.

Louise told the jury that she spent the better part of the afternoon of June 19, 1979, at a laundromat located in the Elm-wood section of Providence. At first she was occupied for an hour or so tending to…