State v. Souza

OPINION

FLANDERS, Justice.

Convicted for sexually abusing a child on multiple occasions, the defendant, Gary Sou-za, challenges on appeal the trial justice’s rulings (1) preventing his introduction of certain evidence concerning the close and ostensibly normal nature of his relationship with the complaining witness and (2) precluding his attorney’s attempt to refresh the complaining witness’s recollection with an investigator’s handwritten notes documenting a pretrial interview with the complainant.

After a Superior Court jury trial, the defendant was convicted of multiple counts of first-and…