State v. Dowell

OPINION

WEISBERGER, Justice.

This case comes before us on appeal by the defendant, Barry Dowell, from a judgment of conviction of first-degree sexual assault and burglary. Following guilty verdicts on both charges by a jury, the trial justice denied the defendant’s motion for a new trial. We affirm. The facts of the case are as follows.

At the trial the complaining witness’s testimony tended to show that defendant called her at her apartment and engaged in sexually explicit conversation. Thereafter, defendant entered the house that the complaining witness shared with three other young women in…