State v. Williams

The defendant appeals from the judgment of conviction, rendered after a jury trial, of the crimes of sexual assault in the second degree, General Statutes § 53a-71 (a) (l),1 and risk of injury to a child, General Statutes § 53-21.2 The defendant claims that the trial court erred (1) in failing to give an adverse inference charge when the state failed to call the victim’s nine year old sister as a witness, and (2) in precluding the defendant from asking the ten year old victim, in the presence of the jury, if she had engaged in any other sexual activity within seventy-two hours prior to the…