State v. Reynaldo Gomez

OPINION

Chief Justice SUTTELL,

for the Court.

The defendant, Reynaldo Gomez, appeals from a Superior Court judgment of conviction after having been found guilty by a jury of second-degree sexual assault in violation of G.L. 1956 § ll-37-4(2). 1 On appeal, the defendant contends that the trial justice erred in: (1) denying his motion for judgment of acquittal; 2 (2) denying his motion for a new trial; and (3) allowing the complaining witness’s statements to the police officer at the scene into evidence under the excited-utterance exception to the hearsay rule. This case came before the Supreme…