State v. Ware

OPINION

KELLEHER, Justice.

A Superior Court jury has found the defendant guilty of having committed manslaughter. He is before us on a two-facet appeal in which he faults the trial justice for (1) denying the defendant’s motion to pass on the grounds that the prosecutor, in his opening remarks to the jury, stated that the jury would hear testimony that was later deemed inadmissible, and (2) allowing graphic, postautopsy photographs of the victim, a one-year-old child, before the jury, during the direct examination of the medical examiner.

On October 12, 1984, an indictment was filed in…