OPINION
Justice GOLDBERG,
for the Court.
After a six-day trial, a Superior Court jury convicted the defendant, Mustapha Bojang (defendant), of two counts of first-degree child molestation sexual assault. The defendant contends that the trial justice committed three errors that require this Court to vacate those convictions: (1) the denial of the defendant’s motion to suppress statements made to police during a post-arrest interrogation; (2) the refusal to allow the defendant to inquire into a false accusation of physical abuse by the complainant against her mother; and (3) the denial of the defendant’s motion for a new trial. For the reasons set forth below, we remand the case to the Superior Court with directions to the trial justice to make additional findings of fact and credibility determinations concerning the volun-tariness of the defendant’s confessions.
Facts and Travel
The defendant came to the United States from West Africa in 2005 on a student visa. After brief stays in Maryland and Missouri, defendant settled in Woonsocket with the Manneh family. Mrs. Manneh (Jainoba) was the cousin of defendant’s wife, who remained in Africa while defendant traveled to the United States. Jainoba1 lived in a second-floor apartment with her husband, Abou Man-neh, and their three children, including the complainant, Jasmine.2 The defendant lived with the Manneh family from January 2005 until December 2007; a number of other adult males also lived in the apartment with the Mannehs from time to time.3 Because he was home in the afternoon, defendant would sometimes babysit Jasmine if neither Abou nor Jainoba was home.
The sexual abuse that is the subject of this case occurred in 2007, when Jasmine was eight years old. Jasmine first disclosed the sexual molestations to her fourth-grade teacher and a school guidance counselor in January 2009. After Jasmine reported defendant’s alleged abuse, the school officials contacted the Department of Children, Youth and Families (DCYF). When DCYF investigator Sue Kalo (Kalo) interviewed Jasmine, she disclosed that she was raped twice by defendant. Soon after that interview, Jasmine was examined by Dr. Christine Barron (Dr. Barron); the child indicated two separate instances of sexual abuse to Dr. Barron. Doctor Barron’s examination was normal, revealing no evidence of physical trauma.
When Jasmine’s father learned about her disclosures, he met with Kalo and reported the sexual abuse allegations to the Woonsocket police on January 27, 2009. Based on the information provided by DCYF and a Child Advocacy Center (CAC) interview, Woonsocket Police Det. Kevin Hammann (Det. Hammann) obtained an arrest warrant for defendant. At the time, defendant was living with Abou’s brother at another location in Woonsocket. Detective Hammann and [530]*530Woonsocket Police Det. Ronald LaBreche (Det. LaBreche) arrested defendant at that site on February 2, 2009. Woonsock-et Police Officer Anthony Conetta transported defendant to the Woonsocket police station. For clarity, we recount the evidence concerning the voluntariness of defendant’s statements as gleaned from the entire trial record and not simply the suppression hearing.
Once at the police station, Dets. Ham-mann and LaBreche conducted two interviews with defendant: an initial unrecorded interview followed by a recorded confession.4 The detectives first placed defendant in the juvenile conference room, which has no recording equipment. During that interview, defendant agreed to waive his Miranda rights and signed a rights form. The testimony at trial produced divergent accounts of the events in the first interview room. At trial, the detectives testified that the interview was largely calm, although Det. LaBreche raised his voice and pounded on the table to get defendant’s attention. While the detectives acknowledge raising defendant’s immigration status during the interview, each officer denied threatening deportation if he refused to cooperate.5 On the other hand, defendant testified at trial that, after he accused Jasmine of lying, Det. LaBreche responded, “Kids don’t lie” and struck him in the head. According to defendant, after he expressed a willingness to take a lie detector test, Det. LaBreche hit him again and said, “This is your lie detector test. Shut the f* * * up.” The defendant also alleged that the detectives told him that he would be deported if he refused to cooperate.
Detective Hammann testified that, after first denying the allegations against him, defendant admitted that he kissed Jasmine on the lips and that on one occasion he stuck his finger in Jasmine’s vagina. Detective LaBreche initially testified that, after defendant admitted to kissing Jasmine on the lips, the detectives decided to bring him to the interview room with recording capabilities. After having his recollection refreshed by Det. Hamman’s witness statement, however, Det. LaBreche testified that, in the first interview, defendant also confessed to sticking his finger in Jasmine’s vagina and rubbing up against her on two occasions, once when she was clothed and the other unclothed.
According to Det. Hammann, after the verbal admissions, he requested that defendant provide a video and audio interview, and defendant agreed. The detective brought defendant to a different room with recording capabilities. Once again, defendant signed a form waiving his Miranda rights. In the recorded interview, defendant admitted to assaulting Jasmine multiple times. He admitted to kissing her three times and rubbing against her while clothed “a couple of times.” He admitted to penetrating her vagina digitally, while in the family sitting room, when Jasmine was home sick from school. Finally, defendant admitted to rubbing his naked body against hers, while on his bed, until he ejaculated. We pause to note [531]*531that, although defendant argued, both in the papers and again at oral argument, that the jury’s verdict related only to the crimes to which he confessed, such is not the case. The defendant never admitted to penile penetration, yet the jury found him guilty of count 8, which charged defendant with “[First] degree child molestation sexual assault, to wit, penis to vagina * * Hi » 6
Prior to trial, defendant moved to suppress all statements to the police, arguing that use of those statements would violate the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution and article 1, section 6 of the Rhode Island Constitution because the statements were “the result of physical, psychological coercion and also because of the State’s or the police department’s failure to record the interrogation in its entirety.”7 After a two-day hearing, however, the trial justice denied the motion. In his bench decision, he noted the difference in dynamics of Det. Ham-mann’s direct examination and cross-examination testimony, as well as the witness’s professed failure of memory about portions of the first interrogation. Specifically, Det. Hammann could not remember whether a table was pounded or whether Det. LaBreche struck defendant in the head. However, the trial justice failed to make any credibility determinations concerning Det. Hammann’s testimony.
Turning to the videotaped confession, however, the trial justice found that defendant was relaxed and not apprehensive. Ultimately, the trial justice declared that the state had proven by clear and convincing evidence that the confession obtained during the second interview was not the product of coercion and that defendant knowingly, intelligently, and voluntarily waived his Miranda rights.
At trial, the videotaped interview was admitted into evidence and played for the jury, over defendant’s renewed objection. Detective LaBreche — who did not testify at the suppression hearing — testified about incriminating statements defendant also made during the first interview. Detective Hammann also gave similar testimony about the first interview. The record discloses that both detectives were subject to vigorous cross-examination respecting the voluntariness of defendant’s confessions.
At trial, Jasmine described a number of sexual assaults by defendant. She testified that, when she was eight years old and in second grade, defendant pulled her into his room, locked the door, shut off the light, and took her clothes off. He then pushed her onto his bed and engaged in vaginal intercourse with her. Jasmine testified that during this molestation, defendant threatened to kill her or beat her up if she told anyone. After the intercourse ended, Jasmine noticed something white and wet in the middle of the bed, and defendant asked her to get a napkin for him. Jasmine then went to the bathroom, where she noticed blood on her vagina and underwear.
Next, Jasmine testified to another similar assault where defendant carried her from the living room to his bedroom and forced her to engage in sexual intercourse while her parents were not home. Again, she noticed blood. The child also liked to play online games on defendant’s comput[532]*532er. One day, when she asked to use his computer, he told her she had to come into his room. Although she refused, Jasmine testified that defendant pulled her into his room anyway and again engaged in sexual intercourse with her.
Jasmine testified to five other instances of forced sexual intercourse. One instance occurred on the couch when she was home sick from school; another assault occurred in his bedroom after she returned from her aunt’s house; another assault occurred in her bedroom; and two more assaults occurred in defendant’s bedroom. Additionally, Jasmine testified that during one of the assaults in defendant’s bedroom, he also digitally penetrated her vagina.
Doctor Barron also testified during the state’s case-in-chief. As noted above, her physical examination of Jasmine was normal and showed no signs of trauma. However, Dr. Barron testified that a normal examination does not rule out sexual abuse and that “95 percent of children will have a normal exam, particularly if they’re examined [more than] two weeks outside of the incident.” At the time of Dr. Barron’s examination, on January 27, 2009, Jasmine’s allegations of sexual abuse related to events which allegedly occurred a year earlier. She therefore concluded that the medical examination neither ruled out nor confirmed the possibility of sexual abuse.
In accordance with this state’s Humane Practice Rule, the trial justice’s charge to the jury included an instruction that, in order to consider defendant’s custodial interrogation, the jury must find that the prosecution had proved by clear and convincing evidence that defendant knowingly and voluntarily waived his Miranda rights. The jury returned a verdict of guilty on two counts, one for digital penetration (count 7) and one for penile penetration (count 8), but found defendant not guilty on the remaining counts of penile penetration.8
After trial, defendant filed a motion for a new trial. The arguments focused on the consistency or inconsistency of Jasmine’s testimony as well as the testimony of other witnesses. In his bench decision, the trial justice recounted much of the salient testimony. Again referring to the testimony from the suppression hearing, the trial justice acknowledged that he made no finding on whether defendant had been struck by a police officer in the first interrogation; but, noting defendant’s demeanor in the second, recorded interview, he was satisfied that defendant was not coerced into making his statement:
“I’ve noted on the record prior to this that I did observe Mr. Bojang to have some degree of comfort as the video progressed. Even if the police officer had, in fact, struck Mr. Bojang, and I made no finding on that issue, but it did not appear Mr. Bojang on the videotape was coerced into giving that statement.”
Based on his review of the evidence, the trial justice denied the motion for a new trial. The trial justice sentenced defendant to thirty years, twenty years to serve, ten years suspended with probation on each count, running concurrently.
Motion to Suppress Confession
The defendant contends that the trial justice erred by denying his motion to suppress his statements to police obtained during a custodial interrogation. “Both the Rhode Island and the United States Constitutions bar the use of a defendant’s involuntary statements in a criminal trial.” [533]*533State v. Bido, 941 A.2d 822, 835 (R.I.2008) (citing State v. Humphrey, 715 A.2d 1265, 1274 (R.I.1998)). In order for the trial justice to admit a defendant’s statement at trial, “the state must establish, by clear and convincing evidence, that the defendant knowingly and intelligently waived his or her right against self-incrimination and that the statement was voluntary.” State v. Monteiro, 924 A.2d 784, 790 (R.I.2007) (citing Humphrey, 715 A.2d at 1274). This inquiry “requires an analysis of the ‘totality of the circumstances surrounding the interrogation.’” State v. Jimenez, 33 A.3d 724, 734 (R.I.2011) (quoting State v. Leuthavone, 640 A.2d 515, 519 (R.I.1994)). “A voluntary statement is a product of free will and rational choice, whereas a statement is deemed involuntary when the defendant’s will was overcome by coercion, threats, violence, or undue influence.” Monteiro, 924 A.2d at 790 (citing Humphrey, 715 A.2d at 1274). If the trial justice is satisfied, by clear and convincing evidence, that the defendant’s will was not overcome by coercion, threats, violence, or other undue influence and the confession was the product of his rational choice, the motion to suppress must be denied. See id. This Court applies the following two-step review of a trial justice’s finding of voluntariness:
“First, we review the trial justice’s findings of historical fact with deference, and we will not overturn those findings unless they are clearly erroneous. * * * Second, because this issue is of constitutional dimension, we accept the historical facts and credibility determinations, and we then conduct de novo review of the trial justice’s conclusion that the confession was voluntary.” Id. (citing State v. Kryla, 742 A.2d 1178, 1183 (R.I.1999)).
In this analysis, we consider the totality of the circumstances. Id. at 791; see also Jimenez, 33 A.3d at 734.
In addition to this constitutional analysis, in this jurisdiction we employ the Humane Practice Rule, under which the trial justice first makes his or her own determination on the voluntariness of the confession. State v. Tassone, 749 A.2d 1112, 1118 (R.I.2000). If the trial justice determines that the statement was made voluntarily, he or she
“is required to instruct the jury that, based on the totality of the circumstances, ‘it must find by clear and convincing evidence that the defendant’s confession was voluntary, and that [the] defendant had been advised of his constitutional guarantee against self-incrimination (the Miranda Rights so-called), before the jury may consider the statement as evidence.’ ” State v. Aponte, 800 A.2d 420, 427 (R.I.2002) (quoting Tassone, 749 A.2d at 1118).
Thus, under the Humane Practice Rule, both the trial justice and the jury must separately find, by clear and convincing evidence, that a confession was voluntary before it may be considered as evidence to support a conviction. See id.
In his bench decision on the motion to suppress, the trial justice failed to adequately perform his factfinding analysis regarding the first interview. Although he noted that Det. Hammann repeatedly declared that he could not remember whether Det. LaBreche pounded the table or slapped defendant in the head during the first interrogation, he declined to rule on those questions or address what effect that conduct, if proven, might have on the question of voluntariness of either confession. Additionally, the trial justice noted Det. Hammann’s delayed response time to questions posed during cross-examination, “all of which [left the trial justice] wondering exactly what went on in [the first] [534]*534interview room * * Summarizing his thoughts, the trial justice stated,
“Based on the observations that I just put on the record, I did not find any apprehension, if there was any, that was manifested by the conduct that I observed in the interview. I’m not sure what caused the detective to break down and be unable to answer the questions in this particular case other than I understand the argument about the tacit admissions, I also understand that you have a police officer who may be apprehensive as well that somebody could put some words in his mouth. I’m speculating. I am speculating here because I don’t know. I listened and I watched intently and that cross-examination went on for a great deal of time. So, while I had some forty minutes to watch Mr. Bojang on the video, I had an equally long time to observe Detective Ham-mann. Even if I grant that Detective Hammann’s not remembering and his failure to answer is a tacit admission, in order to suppress the confession I still have to find that whatever occurred in interview room (number one) where there was no recording, I have to find that induced Mr. Bojang into making that confession, and even if I get to the first set of inferences, and if we get to a jury in this case, I’ll tell the jury what an inference is, and they are free to draw inferences, and [defense counsel] is going to be able to cross-examine the detective pretty much the same way he did here in the courtroom * * *.”
However, regarding the second, recorded interview, the trial justice concluded that defendant was relaxed, not overly apprehensive, and became increasingly comfortable as the interview progressed. Notwithstanding his observations about the first interview, the trial justice found that the recorded confession was not the product of coercion and denied the motion to suppress:
“Now, all of that being said, I find that the State has proven by clear and convincing evidence that the confession was not the product of coercion, and I also find that Mr. Bojang knowingly, intelligently, and voluntarily waived his constitutional rights that are expressed in the case of Miranda versus Arizona, and my findings are based on the articulations that I just made in the past several minutes and especially my watching of Mr. Bojang as he read the form during interview number two. He took some time to read that form, checked off various parts of it, and affixed his signature at the end.
“I will note the defendant’s exception to the Court’s ruling. I’m going to deny the motion to suppress.”
The State’s Concession
Before this Court, the state has conceded that the trial justice failed to make the findings of fact and credibility determinations that are essential to support his ultimate finding of voluntariness. The state argues that the case should be remanded for either a new evidentiary hearing or, at least, additional findings on defendant’s motion to suppress.9 In the wake of this concession, defendant altered course respecting the relief he seeks. In his opening brief, defendant argued that he was entitled to a new evidentiary hearing to determine the voluntariness of his statement; however, in his reply brief he has abandoned that argument and now he contends that this Court must vacate the [535]*535convictions, suppress the statements, and grant him a new trial.10
Our case law in this area is clear and unwavering; the appropriate procedure in this circumstance is to remand the case to the Superior Court so that the trial justice can make the appropriate findings of fact and conclusions of law. In Andrews v. Langlois, 105 R.I. 456, 458, 252 A.2d 450, 452 (1969), this Court reviewed a petition for habeas corpus stemming from a conviction after a trial in which the trial justice failed to conduct a preliminary hearing on the issue of the voluntariness of the petitioner’s confession. The trial justice admitted into evidence a signed statement and a tape recording of an oral statement at trial; the defendant was convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. Id. at 457, 458, 252 A.2d at 451, 452. In the face of this error, this Court laid out a procedural roadmap for similar situations; the Court stated,
“If the jury had been properly instructed on the law governing the issue of voluntariness, we would remit this case to the [Sjuperior [CJourt for a limited hearing on [the issue of the voluntariness of his confession] alone. If at such hearing it was determined that the confession was voluntary and admissible in evidence, a new trial on the question of guilt or innocence would not necessarily be required because petitioner has already been tried by a jury and been found guilty. If, on the other hand, at the limited hearing it was determined that the confession was involuntary, there would have to be a new trial on guilt or innocence, without the confessions being admitted in evidence.” Id. at 461-62, 252 A.2d at 454 (emphases added).
Ultimately, the Court granted a new trial to the defendant because of “an erroneous [jury] charge on the question of voluntariness.” Id. at 462, 252 A.2d at 454. Here, however, defendant does not allege that the trial justice’s Humane Practice instruction to the jury on voluntariness was erroneous. Thus, the procedure mandating a limited remand is appropriate.
Since our decision in Andrews, this Court has employed the same procedure in cases in which there has been a flawed suppression hearing. In State v. Brown, 468 A.2d 914, 914 (R.I.1983), the sole issue raised on appeal was the denial of the defendant’s motion to suppress a statement given to police following his warrant-less arrest. The defendant asserted that the police officer lacked probable cause to arrest him, but the trial justice sustained an objection to a question posed to the arresting police officer on hearsay grounds at the suppression hearing. Id. On appeal, this Court noted that probable cause may be established by hearsay evidence, and “[o]nly with this information in the record could the trial justice initially, and this court now, determine whether or not the officer or officers who arrested the defendant had probable cause to do so.” Id. at 915. We thereupon remanded the case “for an evidentiary hearing and for findings of fact on the issue of probable cause for [the defendant’s] arrest.” Id. Likewise, in State v. Mastracchio, 672 A.2d 438, 442 (R.I.1996), the defendant sought to suppress the fruits of an allegedly illegal search under the knock-and-announee rule. However, “the trial justice * * * did not articulate any factual findings either in [536]*536speech or in writing in regard to his ruling denying defendant’s motion to suppress in the first instance,” id. at 443, and this Court vacated the decision and remanded the case “in order to allow the trial justice to enter findings of fact and to make the determination in the first instance of whether the unannounced entry by police was reasonable under the Fourth Amendment.” Id.
More recently, in State v. Verrecchia, 766 A.2d 377, 380 (R.I.2001), the trial justice found that the defendant had no legitimate expectation of privacy in a garage that he rented; thus, the trial justice did not analyze whether a search of that garage was reasonable. On appeal, this Court held that the defendant did have an expectation of privacy in the garage and remanded the case “for a hearing on [the defendant’s] motion to suppress so that the court can determine whether the police violated any of [the defendant’s] constitutional rights by searching his garage and by seizing certain property found therein as evidence of his criminal acts.” Id. at 384. In our mandate to the Superior Court, this Court directed,
“If the motion justice concludes after conducting this hearing that the evidence should not be suppressed, he or she should enter an order to that effect and the convictions shall stand as affirmed, subject to any appeal concerning this ruling. If, on the other hand, the motion justice decides to grant the motion to suppress, then he or she shall vacate [the defendant’s] convictions and conduct a new trial.” Id. at 391.
This procedure reflects our longstanding reluctance to engage in factfind-ing or to make credibility determinations in the first instance. See, e.g., Brown, 468 A.2d at 915 (“With the present state of the record, we are unable to consider this appeal.”). The trial justice is uniquely positioned to make findings of fact. See State v. Chum, 54 A.3d 455, 460 (R.I.2012) (noting that deference is given to a trial justice’s factual findings). Conversely, “[t]he cold record does not enable an appellate court to evaluate how the witness’s demeanor may have affected his credibility.” State v. Young, 456 A.2d 739, 741 (R.I.1983).
Therefore, we remand the case for the trial justice to make additional findings of fact and credibility determinations regarding the first interview.
The Scope of the Remand
The dissent’s only point of disagreement is the scope of the remand. The dissent would limit the remand to the record of the suppression hearing. We, however, leave to the trial justice the decision to permit or disallow additional evidence or to limit his analysis to the trial testimony. None of the cases cited by the majority are inapposite; these holdings support the well settled mechanism of a limited remand. While the dissent is correct that the cases we cite do not present precisely the same situation that we have here, in none of those cases did the Court explicitly strip the trial justice of the discretion to permit additional evidence. We decline to do so today.
The cases cited by the dissent do not compel this Court to change its practice of vesting trial justices with the discretion to conduct proceedings as they see fit. The justices of the Superior Court are in a far better position than this Court to determine the best procedure to justly resolve the issues that confront them. The dissent cites United States v. Kithcart, 218 F.3d 213 (3d Cir.2000), for its holding that the trial court erred by permitting additional evidence after a remand of a suppression issue. The Third Circuit, however, concluded that the error was “in admitting [537]*537additional evidence upon remand without the explanation that is required ” under the Third Circuit’s precedent United States v. Vastola, 915 F.2d 865, 876 (Sd Cir.1990). Kithcart, 218 F.3d at 221 (emphasis added). The Third Circuit declared, “the question of whether the government may augment the record at a suppression hearing after a remand is analogous to the question of whether the government may reopen its case after resting. Such decisions are traditionally within the discretion of the district court.”11 Id. at 219 (citing Vastola, 915 F.2d at 876) (emphasis added). Vesting the trial justice with such discretion is similarly the practice of this state. Cf. State v. Benevides, 420 A.2d 65, 68 (R.I.1980) (“[A] motion to reopen a case to introduce additional evidence is addressed to the discretion of the trial justice and a decision made in the exercise of such discretionary power will not be disturbed by this court on appeal absent a showing of an abuse of that discretion.”).
Additionally, Southern v. State, 371 Md. 93, 807 A.2d 13 (2002) is unpersuasive for two reasons. First, the holding is grounded in a unique rule of appellate procedure in Maryland and Maryland case law. See id. at 24 (relying on “the intent of [Md. Rule 8—604(d)(1) ] and Maryland case law reviewing this rule”). Second, the facts are widely divergent. In Southern, 807 A.2d at 21, the court stated,
“This is not a case where the motions hearing judge simply did not rule, it is a case where the State, which had the burden of proof on the constitutionality of the initial detention at the suppression hearing, admits that it did not present sufficient evidence to support the constitutionality of the stop.” (Emphasis added.)
In the case before us, the trial justice “simply did not rule.”
Finally, the Court notes that there was extensive testimony at trial respecting the voluntariness of the confession in accordance with this state’s Humane Practice Rule. Thus, the trial justice heard a great deal of evidence relating to the issue on remand. We decline to direct a justice of the Superior Court to ignore hundreds of pages of testimony in deciding this discrete issue.
Therefore, we leave to the trial justice the decision to permit or disallow additional evidence or to limit his analysis to the trial testimony.
Exclusion of Prior False Accusation
The defendant contends that the trial justice erred by refusing to allow defendant to inquire into the complainant’s prior false accusation of physical abuse against her mother. In a voir dire hearing, Jasmine testified, on cross-examination, that — about a month before she first disclosed the sexual abuse at issue here— she was intimidated by a bully at school, who told her to tell the teacher that her mother abused her, or the bully would kill her; Jasmine admitted that her mother did not abuse her. The defendant argues that the evidence was admissible under Rules 608(b) and 404(b) of the Rhode Island Rules of Evidence and that, to the extent this issue was preserved,12 the exclusion violated the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment to the United [538]*538states Constitution. “We review a challenge to a trial justice’s limitation on cross-examination under an abuse of discretion standard, and we will not disturb the exercise of that discretion absent a clear abuse of discretion.” Chum, 54 A.3d at 460. The ruling must amount to “prejudicial error” to constitute a clear abuse of discretion. Id. “Nonetheless, we have held that the trial justice’s ‘discretion must be exercised in a manner consistent with the constitutional guarantees involved.’” State v. Lomba, 37 A.3d 615, 621 (R.I.2012) (quoting State v. Patriarca, 112 R.I. 14, 37, 308 A.2d 300, 315 (1973)).
Rule 608(b) provides,
“Specific instances of the conduct of a witness, for the purpose of attacking or supporting the witness’ credibility, other than conviction of crime as provided in Rule 609, or, in the discretion of the trial judge, evidence of prior similar false accusations, may not be proved by extrinsic evidence. They may, however, in the discretion of the court, if probative of truthfulness or untruthfulness, be inquired into on cross-examination of the witness (1) concerning the witness’ character for truthfulness or untruthfulness, or (2) concerning the character for truthfulness or untruthfulness of another witness as to which character the witness being cross-examined has testified.”
In this case, the trial justice found that Jasmine’s allegations of physical abuse against her mother were not sufficiently similar to the sexual abuse allegations against defendant. We agree. A prior allegation of sexual assault by someone other than the accused differs markedly from an allegation of physical assault against one’s parent. Although not directly addressing Rule 608(b), in State v. Botelho, 753 A.2d 343, 346-47 (R.I.2000), this Court acknowledged our prior cases that permitted cross-examination into previous sexual assault allegations in sexual assault prosecutions, but concluded that a complainant’s “complaint of excessive discipline, purportedly lodged against her father and her mother’s former boyfriend, is fundamentally different from a complaint of sexual molestation.” Accordingly, we are of the opinion that the trial justice did not abuse his discretion under Rule 608(b) by preventing cross-examination into Jasmine’s prior allegation against her mother.
Rule 404(b) provides that “[e]vi-dence of other crimes, wrongs, or acts” may be admissible to prove “motive[.]” On appeal, defendant contends that Jasmine’s accusations of rape were “motivated by [Jasmine’s] fear of [a] sadistic bully.” We reject this contention. Although Jasmine did testify in the voir dire hearing that a bully at school told her to make an allegation of abuse against her mother, there is no suggestion that the bully told Jasmine to make a rape allegation. Indeed, Jasmine testified that the bully did not tell her to make a rape allegation, nor did the bully even know about the abuse:
“Q: Did [the bully] ever tell you something like, you should tell that somebody raped you?
“A: No, she didn’t know about it.”
Thus, there is no evidence that Jasmine’s fear of the bully motivated her to allege sexual abuse against defendant.
We pause to note that the exclusion of this evidence precisely reflects policy considerations that underlie Rule 403 of the Rhode Island Rules of Evidence, which provides for the exclusion of evidence when “its probative value is substantially outweighed by the danger of * * * confusion of the issues, or misleading the jury * * See State v. Gaspar, 982 A.2d 140, 147-48 (R.I.2009) (noting that “Rule 403 cuts across the rules of evidence and is always a consideration in a trial justice’s [539]*539ruling on the admissibility of Rule 404(b) evidence”). Accordingly, the trial justice did not abuse his discretion under Rule 404(b) by preventing cross-examination into Jasmine’s prior allegation against her mother.
The Confrontation Clause secures the right to cross-examine witnesses. Botelho, 753 A.2d at 345 (“The right to cross-examine witnesses is a primary interest secured by the [Confrontation [CJlause.”). A criminal defendant has a “well-established, constitutionally-protected right * * * to [an] effective cross-examination of the prosecution’s witnesses.” State v. Dubois, 36 A.3d 191, 198 (R.I.2012). That right is not absolute. Id. “[Tjrial justices retain a considerable degree of discretion to impose reasonable limitations on cross-examination in order to prevent, inter alia, harassment, prejudice, confusion, or repetitive testimony.” State v. Tiernan, 941 A.2d 129, 134 (R.I.2008). “To satisfy the constitutional right of cross-examination, ‘the trial justice is required to afford the accused “reasonable latitude” to establish or reveal bias, prejudice, or ulterior motives as they may relate to the case being tried.’ ” State v. Clark, 974 A.2d 558, 575 (R.I.2009) (quoting State v. Bustamante, 756 A.2d 758, 765 (R.I.2000)).
Here, defendant was provided with an ample opportunity to cross-examine Jasmine; he deftly tested the consistency of her testimony at trial and in her prior statements. Furthermore, during the voir dire hearing, Jasmine denied that the bully told her to make a rape allegation. It was appropriate for the trial justice to draw the line and not allow inquiry into the prior accusation because it would have served only to confuse the jury. See Botelho, 753 A.2d at 347 (admission of certain evidence “would have served only to confuse and mislead the jury”). Therefore, the trial justice’s refusal to allow cross-examination on Jasmine’s allegations against her mother did not violate the Confrontation Clause.
Motion for a New Trial
Finally, defendant contends that the trial justice overlooked and misconstrued material evidence and clearly erred in denying the motion for a new trial. Specifically, defendant contends that there was insufficient evidence to support the verdict because Jasmine was not a credible witness and, he argues, because the evidence established that defendant’s confession was coerced and unreliable. The defendant also contends that the verdict is against the preponderance of the evidence and fails to do substantial justice between the parties.
“When ruling on a motion for a new trial, the trial justice acts as a thirteenth juror, exercising ‘independent judgment on the credibility of witnesses and on the weight of the evidence.’ ” State v. Heredia, 10 A.3d 443, 446 (R.I.2010) (quoting State v. Imbruglia, 913 A.2d 1022, 1028 (R.I.2007)). “Specifically, ‘the trial justice must (1) consider the evidence in light of the jury charge, (2) independently assess the credibility of the witnesses and the weight of the evidence, and then (3) determine whether he or she would have reached a result different from that reached by the jury.’ ” Id. (quoting State v. Texieira, 944 A.2d 132, 140 (R.I.2008)). “If, after conducting such a review, the trial justice reaches the same conclusion as the jury, the verdict should be affirmed and the motion for a new trial denied.” Id. (citing State v. Snow, 670 A.2d 239, 244 (R.I.1996)).
In this case, the trial justice considered the evidence, independently assessed the credibility of the witnesses and [540]*540the weight of the evidence, and concluded that he would have reached the same result as the jury on the guilty counts.13 Because the trial justice agreed with the jury, his analysis was complete. See State v. Staffier, 21 A.3d 287, 290 (R.I.2011) (“If the trial justice agrees with the jury’s verdict, the inquiry is complete and the motion for a new trial should be denied”). To the extent that the defendant argues that a new trial should be granted based on an error of law by the trial justice, that argument was not presented below; therefore it is waived. See Bido, 941 A.2d at 828-29 (“It is well settled that a litigant cannot raise an objection or advance a new theory on appeal if it was not raised before the trial court”). The defendant’s motion for a new trial raised three grounds: “Said verdict is against the law”; “Said verdict is against the evidence”; and “Said verdict is against the law, the evidence and the weight thereof.” None of these grounds alleged that a new trial should be granted because the trial justice committed an error of law by. not suppressing the confessions. Stating that the verdict is “against the law” is a general challenge addressing the conformity of the evidence to the law in the case; it is not an argument that a specific ruling constituted an error of law requiring a new trial. Therefore, the trial justice did not err by denying the defendant’s -motion for a new trial.
Conclusion
For the reasons stated above, we affirm the trial justice’s denial of the motion for a new trial and discern no error arising from his evidentiary rulings. However, we remand the case to the Superior Court in order for the trial justice to make additional findings of fact and credibility determinations concerning the voluntariness of the defendant’s confessions. The trial justice may permit additional evidence or decide this issue based on the current record. If the trial justice concludes that the motion to suppress should be denied, the trial justice should enter an order to that effect and the convictions shall stand as affirmed, subject to any appeal concerning that ruling by the trial justice. If the trial justice decides to grant the motion to suppress, then he shall vacate the defendant’s convictions and conduct a new trial without the confessions.
The papers in this case may be remanded to the Superior Court.