Legal Opinion
State v. Freeman
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
Decided March 20, 1984No. 83-28-AppealPublishedCited by 34 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
WEISBERGER, Justice.
The defendant, Norman Freeman, is appealing from a conviction for voluntary manslaughter. He was tried by a Superior Court jury in April 1982 pursuant to an indictment charging him with the murder of Arthur Almeida. At the close of the state’s case, the trial justice granted the defendant’s motion for a judgment of acquittal in respect to the charge of murder in the first degree but denied the motion for acquittal of murder in the second degree. The jury returned a verdict of guilty of voluntary manslaughter; and the trial judge, after denying a motion for a new…
2Cases cited13 opinions
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- Pointer v. TexasSupreme Court of the United States · 1965
- Washington v. TexasSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- Springer v. United StatesDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1978
- United States v. Bruce Lusk Bass, IIICourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1974
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3Cited by34 opinions
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