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State v. D'ALESSIO

Supreme Court of Rhode Island

Decided April 1, 2004No. 2002-701-C.APublishedCited by 13 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

WILLIAMS, Chief Justice.

The first day that Jennifer Greenhalgh (Ms. Greenhalgh) returned to work as a new mother was the last day of her daughter’s life. A Superior Court jury found Ms. Greenhalgh’s then-boyfriend, Rocco D’Alessio (defendant), guilty of the second-degree murder of the couple’s three-month-old daughter, Gianna Lynn D’Ales-sio (Gianna). Appealing his conviction, the defendant argues that the chief medical examiner of the State of Rhode Island, Elizabeth Laposata, M.D. (Dr. Laposata), was unqualified to offer her expert opinion that the cause of Gianna’s death was…

2Cases cited22 opinions

  1. Davis v. AlaskaSupreme Court of the United States · 1974
  2. United States v. La FrancaSupreme Court of the United States · 1931
  3. State v. BanachSupreme Court of Rhode Island · 1994
  4. Wilson v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1914
  5. United States v. Lawrence KearneyCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1969

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3Cited by13 opinions

  1. State v. GautierSupreme Court of Rhode Island · 2008
  2. State v. AbdullahSupreme Court of Rhode Island · 2009
  3. Franco v. LatinaSupreme Court of Rhode Island · 2007
  4. State v. LopezSupreme Court of Rhode Island · 2008
  5. Rocco D'Alessio v. State of Rhode IslandSupreme Court of Rhode Island · 2014

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