Supreme Judicial Court of Maine May 15, 1986 (State v. Marois)

MEMORANDUM OF DECISION.

After a jury-waived trial in Superior Court (Cumberland County) defendant Armand Marois was convicted of gross sexual misconduct, 17-A M.R.S.A. § 253 (Supp.1985-1986). On appeal he argues that the trial justice applied the wrong standard to determine whether the four-year-old prose-cutrix was competent to testify. As we have previously stated, M.R.Evid.