Supreme Court of Rhode Island March 25, 1998, 95-359-C.A (State v. Souza)

OPINION

FLANDERS, Justice.

Convicted for sexually abusing a child on multiple occasions, the defendant, Gary Sou-za, challenges on appeal the trial justice’s rulings (1) preventing his introduction of certain evidence concerning the close and ostensibly normal nature of his relationship with the complaining witness and (2) precluding his attorney’s attempt to refresh the complaining witness’s