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STATE v. DORSEY

No. 99-165-C.A.

783 A.2d 947 (2001)

STATE v. Joseph D. DORSEY.

Supreme Court of Rhode Island.

November 8, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Aaron Weisman, Virginia M. McGinn, Providence, for Plaintiff.

Paula Rosin, Providence, for Defendant.

Present WILLIAMS, C.J., LEDERBERG, BOURCIER, FLANDERS, and GOLDBERG, JJ.

OPINION

FLANDERS, Justice.

This is a rape case in which the defendant, Joseph D. Dorsey (defendant), challenges the trial justice's exclusion of certain documentary evidence that his attorney sought to deploy when he was cross-examining the state's complaining witness during the defendant's criminal trial. The defendant wanted to use this evidence to impeach his former wife (victim), who was the alleged rape victim...

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