State v. Derouchie

Defendant appeals his conviction of sexual assault pursuant to 13 V.S.A. § 3252(1)(C). He raises two errors on appeal: (1) that the doctor’s hearsay account of the victim’s version of events was erroneously presented to the jury over defendant’s objection; and (2) that the trial court committed reversible error by permitting the State to present evidence that defendant had injected cocaine hours before the sexual assault. We affirm.

The victim testified at trial that her former boy friend, Dean Derouchie, appeared unannounced at her home in an inebriated state during the early morning hours of…