State v. Vargas

OPINION

Justice GOLDBERG,

for the Court.

This case came before the Supreme Court on appeal by the defendant, Jose Luis Vargas (Vargas or defendant), after a jury convicted him of multiple counts of child molestation. The defendant presents three arguments on appeal. He contends that: (1) the trial justice erred by allowing the state to use his prior criminal convictions for impeachment purposes, should the defendant have testified at trial; (2) the trial justice erred by permitting cross-examination of the complainant’s grandmother about the defendant’s sexual relationship with her then-minor…