STATE v. VEGA

No. 99-398-C.A.

789 A.2d 896 (2002)

STATE v. Luis VEGA.

Supreme Court of Rhode Island.

February 14, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kelly Ann McElroy, Aaron L. Weisman, Providence, for Plaintiff.

Paula Lynch Hardiman, Paula Rosin, Providence, for Defendant.

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


OPINION

PER CURIAM.

A jury convicted the defendant, Luis Vega, of one count of second-degree child molestation. On appeal he challenges the trial justice's responses to various communications the jury submitted to him while it was deliberating. The defendant also contends that the trial justice erred by providing the jurors with unduly coercive Allen1 instructions after the jury had informed the trial justice that it was...

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