State v. Tetreault

OPINION

Justice GOLDBERG,

for the Court.

On November 26, 2003, the defendant, William Tetreault (defendant or Tetreault), was charged with maliciously beating and sexually assaulting his girlfriend, Teresa1 (Teresa or complainant). In November 2006, the defendant was tried before a Superior Court jury on five felony charges, and convicted by the jury on all counts.2 The trial justice denied the defendant’s motion for a new trial and sentenced him to concurrent terms of thirty years at the Adult Correctional Institutions: twenty years to serve and ten years suspended with probation for the two…