State v. Nadeau

The defendant was convicted of aggravated felonious sexual assault under RSA 632-A:2 (Supp. 1983) following a jury trial in Superior Court (Johnson, J.). The defendant’s first trial had ended in a hung jury. The defendant argues on appeal that the judge in the second trial made three errors. These asserted errors were: first, that the judge erred by effectively overruling the decision of the first trial judge regarding the admission into evidence of a confession by the defendant; second, that the judge erred in instructing the jury that the defendant’s confession, which was admitted during…