State v. Gonzalez

The defendant, Ruben Gonzalez, was convicted after a jury trial in Superior Court (Hicks, J.) of three counts of aggravated felonious sexual assault, see RSA 632-A:2 (Supp. 2002), two counts of felonious sexual assault, see RSA 632-A:3 (Supp. 2002), and two counts of misdemeanor sexual assault, see RSA 632-A:4 (1996). The victim was the defendant’s stepdaughter, who was eight years old when the assaults began. We affirm.

On appeal, the defendant argues that the trial court erred when it admitted testimony from two lay witnesses regarding the tendency of victims to fail to contemporaneously…