CARTER, Justice.
After a trial in Superior Court (Androscoggin County), the jury found the defendant guilty of Gross Sexual Misconduct, 17-A M.R.S.A. § 253 (1982). Because we find that the justice's refusal to comply with the jurors' request to read back a portion of the testimony constitutes reversible error in the trial proceedings, we vacate the conviction.
The prosecutrix, the defendant's nine-year-old daughter, offered testimony that suggested that...
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