State v. Piette

OPINION

Found unconscious in the driver’s seat of a stolen motor vehicle that had just collided with another car, the defendant, Brian R. Piette, objects on appeal to a hearing justice’s probation-revocation decision. We consider here whether the evidence introduced at the Superior Court hearing was sufficient to support the violation adjudication.

After adjudging defendant to have violated the terms of his probation, the hearing justice ordered him to serve four years of a previously imposed but suspended sentence. On appeal, defendant decries the sufficiency of the evidence to support that…