STATE v. SIMPSON

No. 86-90-C.A.

520 A.2d 1281 (1987)

STATE v. Walter R. SIMPSON.

Supreme Court of Rhode Island.

February 16, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arlene Violet, Atty. Gen., Michael R. Hagopian, Thomas Dickinson, Sp. Asst. Attys. Gen., for plaintiff.

Patricia A. Hurst, D'Amico, Connor & Hurst, Providence, for defendant.


OPINION

SHEA, Justice.

This matter is before the court on appeal from a conviction of first-degree sexual assault. On the defendant's appeal his first conviction was overturned, and this appeal is the result of the retrial and conviction. After being found guilty on retrial, the defendant was sentenced to fifty years, twenty of which were suspended with twenty years probation. We affirm.

At trial the victim, hereinafter referred to as Melissa,

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