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- Title: State New Hampshire v. Vincent Coppola
- Author : Supreme Court of New Hampshire
- Release Date : January 07, 1987
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 68 KB
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A jury trial in the Superior Court (Bean, J.) resulted in the defendant's convictions on one count of burglary, RSA 635:1 , and two counts of aggravated felonious sexual assault, RSA 632-A:2. He was sentenced under RSA 651:6, II(a) to consecutive extended terms of imprisonment totaling twenty to sixty years for the assaults, and to a further, but suspended, consecutive term of three and one-half to seven years for the burglary. In this appeal, the defendant advances four claims of trial court error: (1) in admitting his pre-arrest statement to the police; (2) in admitting the victim's statement to police investigators at the scene of the crime; (3) in imposing extended terms of imprisonment under RSA 651:6 despite the county prosecutor's failure to specify before trial which of several possible statutory grounds he would rely upon in seeking the enhanced penalties; and (4) in considering circumstantial evidence of prior bad acts by ""giv it such weight as... it deserve."" We sustain the convictions but remand for reconsideration of the sentences. The female victim lived alone in Epsom, where she was awakened at 12:14 a.m. on January 24, 1986, by a thumping sound on her front door. She got up to see what was the matter, and as she stood near the source of the noise a hand broke through a glass panel from outside, unfastened the lock and opened the door. A man entered and struggled with the victim, whom he overpowered, dragged to the bedroom and stripped of her night clothes. After the intruder had forceably engaged in cunnilingus and intercourse with the victim, he dressed himself and left about 12:45 or 12:50, after threatening further harm if the victim reported the crime.