State v. Hazard

OPINION

FLANDERS, Justice.

The defendant, Harold A. Hazard (defendant), appeals from a judgment of conviction for repeated sexual assaults upon a child. A Superior Court jury found the defendant guilty of committing five counts of child molestation sexual assault (four counts first degree, one count second degree) against his former girlfriend’s daughter (victim) when the girl was eleven and twelve years old.

On appeal, defendant challenges various evidentiary rulings and the trial justice’s mid-trial excusal of a juror from the case. Below, we take up each of defendant’s specifications of…