State v. Andujar

OPINION

Chief Justice WILLIAMS,

for the Court.

The defendant, Jose A. Andujar (defendant), appeals his conviction in the Superi- or Court for criminal solicitation of murder, in violation of G.L.1956 § 11-1-9. He insists that he cannot be guilty of criminal solicitation because the intended recipient never received the soliciting instrument. Furthermore, the defendant claims he was deprived of due process when he was precluded from presenting at trial the fact of a prior acquittal while the state was permitted to introduce evidence of precisely those charges of which he had been acquitted.…