State v. Morel

OPINION

LEDERBERG, Justice.

In this appeal before the Supreme Court, the defendant, David Morel, argued that the trial justice erred by admitting into evidence certain testimony on the analysis of deoxyri-bonucleic acid (DNA) and also abused his discretion by allowing the state to impeach the defendant with evidence of a prior criminal conviction. The defendant has appealed from a judgment of conviction of three counts of first degree sexual assault and one count of assault with a dangerous weapon after which conviction he was sentenced to concur rent terms of thirty years, twenty years to…