Opinion ID: 2099336
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: The Relevant Occurrences Prior to July 26, 2006

Text: Danielle Brueske testified that she had met defendant while she was attending Diman School of Practical Nursing, which is located in southeastern Massachusetts. (She attended that school from September of 2005 through June of 2006.) She testified that defendant was a coordinator of the nursing program at the school and that he was also her instructor in some of her courses. Ms. Brueske further testified that, beginning on July 4, 2006, after she had completed nursing school, she and defendant began seeing each other and that their relationship quickly became sexual in nature. Ms. Brueske testified that she had stayed at defendant's home in East Providence during the week prior to her taking the nursing board exams (which took place on July 16, 2006). However, unbeknownst to defendant, immediately thereafter, on July 17, Ms. Brueske resumed living with her boyfriend, one Jarret Ferreira, who decided at that time to ask Ms. Brueske to marry hima proposal which Ms. Brueske accepted. Ms. Brueske characterized her relationship with her fiancé prior to their engagement as having been pretty rocky. Moreover, she testified that she did not tell either her fiancé or defendant about the existence of the other. [1] She did testify, however, that, in the days immediately following her engagement to Mr. Ferreira, she told defendant not to contact her. On July 23, less than a week after they had become engaged, Ms. Brueske and her fiancé argued, and she again went to stay with defendant. She contended that, at this point in time, defendant confronted her, stating that he knew she was lying. It was her testimony, however, that she still did not tell defendant that she was engaged to another man. Nevertheless, according to Ms. Brueske's testimony, the July 23 confrontation between defendant and her escalated to the point that defendant became physical; she testified that he pinned [her] up against the wall and then pinned [her] on the bed, not letting her up. Ms. Brueske testified that, on July 25, after she had argued with Lynn Saucier, [2] a friend who had also been a classmate of hers at Diman School of Practical Nursing (and who also knew defendant through the nursing school), she went to defendant's home. Ms. Brueske further testified that, when defendant came home later that day, he informed her that he knew that she was engaged to another man, and he stated that he had spoken with Lynn. Ms. Brueske testified that she then informed defendant that things between her and her fiancé weren't going well. Ms. Brueske testified that, on that same day (July 25), she told defendant that she was going to her grandmother's house; she further testified, however, that in actuality she met up with a male friend, to whom she referred simply as Doyle in her testimony, and that she went to the movies with him. Ms. Brueske testified that she considered the outing with Doyle to have been a date. She went on to testify that, after going to the movies together, she and Doyle engaged in sexual relations in the back seat of his car. Ms. Brueske testified that, after the late evening date with Doyle, she returned to defendant's home at approximately 2:00 a.m. on July 26. She testified that, during her absence, defendant had called and sent text messages to her cell phone some twenty times. Ms. Brueske further testified that defendant was waiting for her when she arrived at his home; she stated that he said that he knew that she had not gone to her grandmother's house and that he asked her where in fact she had gone. Ms. Brueske testified that she told him that she had gone to a beach for the purpose of thinking; she added that she did not inform him that she had been out on a date with someone else that night. Ms. Brueske stated that, after that discussion, she and defendant went to bed. B