State v. Tufts

The defendant, Michael D. Tufts, was convicted, after a jury trial in Superior Court (Nadeau, J.), of aggravated felonious sexual assault. On appeal, he challenges the *518sentencing court’s consideration of an allegation of a prior sexual assault contained in the presentence investigation report. We affirm.

At the defendant’s sentencing hearing on February 13, 1991, defense counsel objected to a paragraph in the probation department’s presentence report containing a named woman’s allegation that the defendant sexually assaulted her in 1988. The report referred to a letter written by the woman to…