State v. Burgess

OPINION

SHEA, Justice.

The defendant, Maurice Burgess (Burgess), appeals from Superior Court jury convictions of first- and second-degree sexual assault and committing an abominable and detestable crime against nature. The state concedes that we should vacate the conviction of committing an abominable and detestable crime against nature because this conviction and the first-degree sexual-assault conviction result from the same forcible-fellatio offense, thereby violating the double-jeopardy clause. Burgess also raises a number of other issues; however, the issue concerning the admissibility of…