State v. Donato

OPINION

FAY, Chief Justice.

This matter is before the Supreme Court on appeal by the defendant, Samuel A. Donato, from a Superior Court jury conviction of two counts of assault upon a person over sixty years of age. The defendant alleges that his right to a fair trial was violated as a result of prejudicial statements made by the prosecutor during the state’s opening and closing statements and that the trial justice erred in denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial. For the reasons set forth below we affirm the conviction.

In July 1984 defendant, upon arriving at his mother’s apartment and…