Legal Opinion
State v. Firth
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
Decided February 25, 1998No. 96-482-C.APublishedCited by 35 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
GOLDBERG, Justice.
The defendant, Thomas Firth (Firth), stands convicted on one count of first-degree murder by a Providence County Superior Court jury. Raising several issues before this court, Firth urges us to reverse his conviction. For the reasons set forth below, we deny his appeal and affirm the conviction. A brief discussion of the relevant facts follows with additional facts elicited for the various legal issues raised in this opinion.
I
Factual and Procedural History
On the afternoon of August 21, 1991, Gilbert Mann (Mann) drove his automobile into a vacant parking lot at the…
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